INTERVIEW WITH JASON ALFONSO, DECEMBER 11, 2024   Jason Alfonso grew up in poverty, with an abusive father, in gang-infested neighborhoods in Los Angeles.  His older brother was mistakenly murdered by a rival gang that was actually targeting Jason. Jason was 19 years old when this occurred. Father Gregory […]

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Art of Don Hata Soaring Jail Birds         Don Teruo Hata, PhD, was born in East Los Angeles in 1939.  At age three years old, he was arrested with his parents and sent to a concentration camp at Gila, Arizona, pursuant to the round-up of over 110,000 […]

Art of Sandow Birk California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison (Corcoran) From his book, Incarcerated:  Visions of California in the 21st Century

  From the Editor                 NASA Photo (James Webb Telescope) “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”                         Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (1935)             Dear Reader,             Welcome to the premier edition of Headwind!             […]

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CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS      Front Cover:  Painting, “Headwind,” oil on canvas, by Jewel Okamura- Ritkes vi:   NASA Photo (James Webb Telescope) xii:  photo of Suzanne Lummis by Alexis Rhone Fancher 1:  The Poem Noir, Too Dark to Be Depressed, first published In Malpais Review, ed. Gary L. Brower, Winter 2012-13, then […]

    CONTRIBUTORS   Sandow Birk is a Los Angeles-based artist who creates ambitious, multimedia projects that address contemporary life and pressing social issues through the lens of art history.  His art has explored themes from Southern California urban culture to immigration, incarceration, war, and classical literature.  Notable projects include […]

                                                Painters on Painting                     “Painting is concerned with all the ten attributes of sight: darkness and light, solidity and color, form and position, distance and nearness, motion and rest.”                                                                 Leonardo daVinci, Leonardo’s Literary Works                   “The painter who has no doubt about his own […]