Preservation vs. Retention — Split Lip Magazine

Pressed flowers, digitally distorted into something like a botanical bar code: bold yellow-green leaves and delicately veined, fluorescent blue-violet petals are backlit and warped against a dark, swirling background with glitchy, linear streaks. — “Preservation vs. Retention” by Daniel Kent Foley.
Digital photography and manipulation, 8″ x 11″, 2022.

Daniel Kent Foley (he/him/his) (@dan.ke.fo) is a gay Navajo artist, writer, and tarot reader based in Central Ohio. Daniel’s work explores questions of reality, ethics, and intimacy by layering various traditional mediums with digital manipulation. His visual art has appeared in Beyond Words, The Abstract Elephant, and Button Eye Review. His visual poetry has appeared in Poetry Online.