An exploration of the artist’s dilemma – the guilt and necessity of creating beauty amidst unimaginable global suffering and strife.
The pen and the brush are all I have
Author: Oormila V. Prahlad
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is a widely published Indian-Australian artist and poet. She has been nominated thrice for the Pushcart Prize and multiple times for the Best of the Net. She is the author of Patchwork Fugue (Atomic Bohemian Press UK, 2024), A Second Life in Eighty-eight Keys (winner of The Little Black Book Competition, Hedgehog Poetry Press UK, 2024), and three digital micro-chapbooks published by Origami Poems Project US. Her art has been featured on the covers and within the pages of several literary journals and anthologies including West Trestle Review, Amsterdam Quarterly Yearbook, and Pithead Chapel. She lives and works in Lindfield, on traditional Gammeragal land.