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Acknowledgments
Editors
Nik Hyatt
John Sbisa

Cover Art
Lisa Costello

Layout Design
Lisa Costello

Faculty Advisor
Martha Perkins

Mosaic is a collaborative publication that relies on the support, good humor,

and hard work of students and employees in various departments. We could not
publish without their involvement! Special thanks go to all the employees who
were directly involved and/or answered questions along the way:

Ryan Flathau Tonya Forbes

Pete Williams Anne Yerby
David Johnson Kathryn Jarvie
Matt Samra Dr. Kay Keck
Barbara Sudeikis Terah Zaremba
Joanne Colyn

Thank you for making our students publication dreams come true.
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Selection Committees
Art
Art League members voted on 2019 fall submissions in January/
February of 2020.

Literature
As a capstone course project, the students who were enrolled in ENGL
203, Introduction to Creative Writing, completed a multi-step
selection process in December 2019.

Starr Baldwin Eleanor Mrak

Sebastian Everest Keia Naves
Patrick Fitzgerald Morgan Nigg
Serenity Jones Isabella Proulx
Samuel Luna John Sbisa
Arthur McClenney Dylan Schleben
Grace Miller Shakarra Sloan-Gross

Literary submissions for the spring 2021 magazine will be accepted by

email until midnight on Feb 5 at webstert@kellogg.edu; people who

want to submit art should contact Ryan Flathau (flathaur@kellogg.

edu) and/or Pete Williams (williamsp@kellogg.edu) regarding deadline

and submission process. For additional information about editorial/

production opportunities, please contact Tom Webster, advisor to Mosaic

and the Crude Art club, at webstert@kellogg.edu.

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Art
Jacqueline Gembe Famous Work 1
Evan Thawnghmung Cleat Crosshatching 4
Danielle Tubbs Tiger Stippling 5
Cameron Gillette Prisoner of My Own Mind 7
Al Smith GROWTH 8
Asia Feltner Transitioning Perspective 9

Bekah Arnold Light in the Darkness 13
Emily Willard Fallen Leaf 12
Jon’tae’sha Taylor Nigerian Sky 15
Abbey Bailey It All Started With A Mouse 17
Kara McGreal Crisp 19
Christy Prater At the Precipice 20
Kennedy Allen Game Capsule 21
Ben Porter Melting Wall 24
Markel Shiery Navajo 25
Kara Lewis Face 27
Raelyn Lipscomb Hidden Objects 28
Emily Talbot Singing for No Porpoise 29
Brianna Zuke Sleeping Beauty 31
Carmen Herman My Journey 32
Allison Tenney Baby You’re My Sun Rose 33
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Art Continued
Kaci Metcalf Portrait of a Boy 35
Anthony Staib Ink Salad 36
Rachel Williams Penny- Farthing with Sunflower 37
Ashley Neal Bike Music 39

Literary Works
Nik Hyatt Ode to the Cemetery 2
Brock Henson Escape 6
Nik Hyatt Bluebird 10
Oriana Bell World War Me 14
Joy Garno Dear Little Me 16
John Martin Spring Clover 18

Nik Hyatt Boxes 22

Jacob Ludwick Isms 26
Ellie Davis How to Fight a Battle 30
Robert Butler Borderline Love 34
Tarah Lang Drifting Tides and Gentle Waves 38

Contributors
Artist/Author Bios 40
 Jacqueline Gembe
Famous Work
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Territory of melancholy mystery,

solace of skeletons,
grounds of lovemaking at midnight
and frolicking children
who have not yet learned
the solemnity that you hold.
Guardian of ghosts -
people once living,
breathing,
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laughing,
memories once recalled,
minds once aching,
hands once shaking.
Transparencies still haunt me
Ode to the Cemetery

like the burns these remains

escaped in burial.
Graveyard of ghouls,
you contain the lives of the dead.
Amongst your “flowers on Sundays”
and “I wish you were still here” visitors,
the soil and neatly trimmed grass
grip and cling to the confinements
of those who have been
stripped of being.
To suggest “existence” is something
which the cemetery lacks
is to suggest there would be no use
for a cemetery,
as if those planted in it
were never alive
to grow and flourish
like the yellow tulips placed at
my great grandmother’s tombstone.

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Oh, cemetery,
collecting sorrow
like pocket change,
you bear the weight
of the heavy hearts who visit.
You mourn the loss of the flesh
draped over a skeleton
of a woman who had died
years before she was dead.
Keeper of reminders,
keeper of secrets,
keeper of those with tombstones,
and names,
and years,
and those without
a tombstone,
or a name,
or years,
keeper of moans,
and silence,
and blankets of fog.
Your renters have not overstayed
their welcome.
Cemetery,
you are the home in which
the dead live,
and the word “groundskeeper”
represents those who reside
beneath our feet
and forever in our hearts.

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Evan Thawnghmung
Cleat Crosshatching Ink
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 Tiger Stippling Danielle Tubbs
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Sharpie Marker
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A duck in the grass

a monkey in a tree
Brock Henson

but the man in the cage

just wants to be free.

A frog in the pond

a bald eagle in the sky,
just set the man free
and watch him fly high.
Escape

Where can he go if he never sees the light?

Where would he fly with no light in sight?
Who knows what the man could do?
Perhaps by his life, yours will improve.

So let the man breathe and let the man go.

Like the eagle in the sky, the man will soar,
and if not, at least we all tried,
so go set him free. That’s all he asks for.

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 Prisoner of My Cameron Gillette
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Own Mind Digital Illustration
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Al Smith
GROWTH Collage
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 Transitioning Asia Feltner
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Perspective Marker
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Bluebird,
tell me,
was it worth it -
the running to the sea,
Nik Hyatt

the sculpting, the froth,

the rescinding?
Do you find the cherries taste sweeter
after you whisper songs
into the trees?
Ravel me up in your blues -
Bluebird

the ones which feel like jazz in April,

brassy and bright,
resounding throughout the bustling city.
Does the way I say your name
make you want to try harder?
Bluebird,
do you hear my cries?
This habitual hurting and healing
is a remnant of past lovers’ quarrels.
Becoming someone else’s heartache
must feel like getting hand-me-down hurt.
Sing with me, this duet of aching and melancholia.
Pull the vulnerability from my skin into the open air
and lay it to rest beside me.
Why should you be allowed to occupy my shell
more than I, a visitor to these bones, do?
Tell me why my heart aches so.

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Bluebird,
drench me in a soft confidence,
sweet like honey.
Let me always speak the truth,
even if it means my voice will tremble.
It will be just like starting over.
Has delirium come rolling in like the storm
which brews beneath your wings?
Does pride or paranoia crawl through your veins,
Twizzler muscles and peppermint pain?
Drink from me, lemon meringue,
and I will share the streetlamp glow with you.
Peel me off the sidewalk after the early morning rain,
when my cheeks become a rouge-tinted nectar.
Bluebird,
please forgive me.

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Emily Willard
Fallen Leaf Digital Photograph
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Bekah Arnold
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Darknes Film Photograph

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Oriana Bell

My mind is a kingdom,
thoughts scattered in a field.
My soul is at war,
but my heart is a shield
in a constant battle,
desperate for a moment of peace.
World War Me

Be careful: she is fragile,

have mercy at least.
My eyes tell a story;
come closer and see.
Raising the white flag,
my mind is tangled, yet I am free.

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Jon’tae’sha Taylor
Nigerian Sky
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Acrylic Paint and Marker

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Joy Garno

Dear little me, I'm sorry.

I remember you so sweet and ignorant, with bouncing, tightly
wound curls.
You skipped around and into trees, one of Daddy's little girls.
I'm sorry I wanted to take it away. I'm sorry I forced you to change.
I hate how I mistreated you and beat you, deranged.
Dear Little Me

I loved to belittle and mock when you simply wanted to try.

You never did me any harm, but I made you want to die.
I'll try to steal back our innocence if you forgive me of my crime.
Dear little me, I'm sorry. I, too, hope to reconnect with time.

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Abbey Bailey
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With A Mouse Digital Photograph

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John Martin

Before reading this, close your eyes.

Allow your soul to rise;
it’s a cool, crisp morning.
You hear the birds chirping;
sun is weaving through the trees.
Spring Clover

You can hear the buzzing of bees;

there is dew on the grass.
For a moment, time ceases to pass.
You see all the creatures of nature scatter
As well as hear their pitter-patter.
The glistening sun hits your face,
revealing its wonderful grace.
The cool morning fades away
as the gentle heat on your face lingers, wanting to stay.
Winter is finally over;
now it is time for the spring clover.

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Crisp
Colored Pencil
Kara McGreal

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Christy Prater
At the Precipice Digital Photograph Mosaic
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Game Capsule
Graphite
Kennedy Allen

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1. I am seven years old and crawling through a box fort with my

sister. We took extra care to color the box so it would look like a
castle. Even if it was poorly crafted, we loved it. For once, I was
living out my childhood dream of being a princess.

2. It is grade six and he is sliding a paper across my desk before

we are dismissed from math class. I open it to see “check yes or
no” scrawled in the poor handwriting of a friend of mine. This
friend was asking me out for the boy he knew I liked. After only
Nik Hyatt

seven minutes of “dating” this boy, I learned, in front of the

whole class, that he had not wanted to be with me. This was the
first truth I had learned of boxes.

3. It is grade eight. I am crying in the school hallway outside of

Boxes

my English class. After years of dealing with the man I called my

father, we were finally escaping. I was not crying because I would
miss him. I was crying because I was scared to pack my entire
life into a few boxes and start new somewhere else. These boxes
have been packed and unpacked numerous times since.

4. When I was little, I would throw a laundry basket onto my

back and pretend I was a turtle. I would tell all my family that
I was the fastest turtle around and that I’d surely beat the hare
in a race. In grade ten, I was on display for the boy who told me
he was planning to marry me. He was the hare - always moving
faster than I wanted him to. I stayed hidden inside of my shell.
I kept his things in a box and burned them with a friend after I
learned he had been cheating on me for eight months.

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5. Boxes are for holding and for hiding. In a small box

underneath my bed, I kept a couple of knives, some bandages,
pepper spray, a chain that a friend had bought me for my
birthday, a lighter, and a razor blade, as if the knives weren’t
enough. Instead of using these items as self-defense weapons,
the real purpose became defense against myself.

6. It was a Wednesday morning when I pulled the overflowing

box from her closet. Her hands became the permission I needed
to open the box. I never could fit inside the boxes you tried to
keep me in.

7. I kept your drawings and paper boats in another cardboard

box; I would slice and burn them when the lies rolled off
your tongue too smoothly for me to catch. It is nine degrees
Fahrenheit. I am sitting in the snow with nothing but jeans and
a tee shirt to shield me from the cold. It is difficult to care about
feeling warmth when you cannot feel at all.

8. I keep our small memories in a clear tote instead of a box.

Maybe it will help the dried roses to bloom again. The theatre
pamphlets remind me of something far greater occurring in black
boxes. The letters, the stamp with your address, the tiny Nerf
gun, the scrapbook, and our love exist outside of something
I once did not dare step out of.

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Ben Porter
Melting Wall Sharpie Marker
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Navajo
Mixed Media
Markel Shiery

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I am strong; I am feigning
I am wise; ‘tis a jest
Jacob Ludwick

I am confident that I,
In my confidence am weighing

I am brave, though my heart

Raves beneath my chest

Who am I but arrogance himself,

Isms

To make so bold my plan?

To believe that I, one so meek as I

Might force on life my hand?

I am hope; I am desire;
I am love; I am the fire

I am a hand whose reach

Extends far beyond its grasp

I am a flammable delusion;
You need only strike a match

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Face
Ink
Kara Lewis

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Hidden Objects Raelyn Lipscomb
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 Singing For Emily Talbot

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No Porpoise Collage
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Rising like bubbles, angst.

Within her is burden, pressure, gravity;
cascading down on her, it roars like a stampede.
Ellie Davis

Feels like falling,

like a dream,
like she doesn’t know if she can catch herself.

Subconsciously she slips into her head.

Glaze over her eyes,
How to Fight a Battle

deep in thought,
waiting for a breakthrough,
she reaches

higher,
as not to be alone.
She waits

for the sun to rise again

so she can proclaim victory over anxiety.
The daylight reminds her
she is seen.

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Film Photograph
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Carmen Herman
My Journey Collage Mosaic
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Allison Tenney
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My Sun Rose Scanogram

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Robert Butler

Ah, what fresh hell awaits me this evening?

Whom, love, will you be? How will I prepare?
Happy, joyous, loving, content, preening?
Sad, or broken, hopeless, crying nightmare?
Dodge glass you loosed when key entered lock?
Already rage awakened, punish me now
Borderline Love

for thoughts you had, convinced of my heart block.

Relief sought with the razor disavowed?
Wounds bandaged, clean up blood, dare I balk?
All bound up in pain, much too tight to talk.
Will it she who knows I mean to hurt her?
Or, fears I shall leave, alone, forever?
So, this is my punishment, well deserved
For evil I have inflicted, unreserved.

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Kaci Metcalf
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Graphite
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Anthony Staib
Ink Salad Ink
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Rachel Willliams
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Inspired by “Impression Sunrise” by

Claude Monet
Tarah Lang

Drifting tides and gentle waves,

a breeze as smooth as polished metal.
Sun rises to leave the soft sea
as man rises to greet the day.
The world slumbers, though few wake,
raising anchors, setting sails,
ships carried away by gusts.
Drifting Tides and

An everyday occurrence
each morning admired.
A sunrise treasured by small numbers—
Gentle Waves

only those who wake to witness,

a beacon for those who want it.

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Bike Music
Marker
Ashley Neal

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Contributors
KENNEDY ALLEN is working on an Associate Degree in General
Studies at KCC. She plans to transfer to WMU to pursue a Bachelor of
Fine Arts in Graphic Design.

BEKAH ARNOLD is working on an Associate of Arts. She uses

photography as a channel for her post-partum depression. After
graduating in the spring 2020, she plans to pursue a photography degree.

ABBEY BAILEY is planning to major in business, and minor in

theatre arts. After KCC, she plans to move onto a 4 year university,
with University of Central Florida being her dream school.

ORIANA BELL is currently enrolled at KCC, and she hopes to transfer

to Michigan State next fall in order to earn a Bachelor of Science in
Nursing degree. Her poem reflects on the process of facing challenges
and overcoming them.

ROBERT BUTLER is a non-traditional student who has already

earned a Master in Social Work, and now, at the age of 54, he is finally
scratching that itch to learn how to write. Robert swears that he is
NOT having a mid-life crisis!

ELLIE DAVIS is an art major at KCC. She enjoys drinking coffee

and working at 32 Social Café. She hopes her literary work inspires
anyone who reads it.

ASIA FELTNER is a graphic design student working hard for her

degree. After spring 2020, she plans to get a Bachelor Degree in
Graphic Design at Kendall College of Art and Design.

JOY GARNO is working on an Associate Degree in General Studies.

She can be seen in the ceramics lab on campus at all hours of the day.

JACQUELINE GEMBE is a graphic design student who is going to

graduate soon. She plans on pursuing a Bachelor Degree in Video
Game Design at Ferris State University.

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CAMERON GILLETTE is a graphic design student. He plans to attend Michigan

State and graduate with a Bachelor in Fine Art.

BROCK HENSON is currently in his first year at KCC. He attended Fenton High
School last year and is now a Bruin on the baseball team.

CARMEN HERMAN is a graphic design student with a love for creating art.

NIK HYATT is an aspiring author, and her passion for writing is guiding her pursuit
of an English degree. Her poems are often based upon personal experience and the
knowledge she has gained from these situations.

TARAH LANG was dual-enrolled at KCC while finishing her senior year at Marshall
High School. She is now studying exercise science at Hope College.

KARA LEWIS is an accounting major. After graduating she will move to Tennessee
and become an accountant for a company.

RAELYN LIPSCOMB is a graphic design major who plans on transferring to WMU

to continue her design studies.

JACOB LUDWICK is getting his Associate Degree in General Studies. He hopes to

study neuroscience at Central Michigan University. Despite his interest in science, he
loves poetry and creative writing, and no topic is off-limits.

JONATHAN MARTIN is currently enrolled at KCC and is pursuing his Associate

Degree in General Studies. He tries to captivate his audience in his poems by using
experiences with nature.

KARA MCGREAL is an art major at KCC, and she specializes in studio art. Her goal
is to transfer to WMU and pursue a Bachelor of Fine Art.

KACI METCALF is an early college KCC student who is pursuing an Associate of

Arts degree.

ASHLEY NEAL is an art student in the Art Enrichment program. She plans on
transferring to WMU to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts.

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BEN PORTER is a graphic design student. After graduation he plans to receive a

bachelor degree and move to a bigger city.

CHRISTY PRATER is a graphic design student and senior at Athens High School.
After graduating in spring 2021, she plans to pursue a Bachelor in Graphic Design at
a four-year university.

MARKEL SHIERY is a graphic design student. After graduating in spring 2021,

Markel plans on pursuing a career in the field of graphic design.

AL SMITH is a student at KCC currently taking graphic design and art classes. After
graduating, Al plans to move on into animation.

EMILY TALBOT is a graphic design student. After graduating in spring 2021, she
plans to pursue a Bachelor in Graphic Design at a four-year college.

JON’TAE’SHA TAYLOR is a graphic design student who is also a part of an art club
called Sketchbook Tour. She plans to go into the workforce after graduating spring 2021.

ALLISON TENNEY is working towards getting her Associate in General Studies.

She uses photography as an outlet for her stress and depression.

EVAN THAWNGHMUNG is a 2nd year graphic design student with plans to further
his education at Michigan State University.

DANIELLE TUBBS is a KCC graphic design student looking to become a fine art
artist in addition to having a graphic design career.

EMILY WILLARD is a full-time college student; she also plans on studying writing
and art in the future.

RACHEL WILLIAMS is a photography/multimedia student who is also pursuing a

Graphic Design Certificate.

BRIANNA ZUKE is currently getting her Associates of Arts in General Studies at

KCC, and she plans to graduate in the spring. After Brianna transfers, she plans to
get a Bachelor in Music Therapy.

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