Entanglement in Words

Linda Shields Swicker

Collage​

About the Creators

Ryan Valentine

Ryan Valentine is a cartoonist living in Salem, Massachusetts. He is the main creator behind Poetry Comix, an ongoing webcomic dedicated to the intersection of illustration and lyricism. Poetry Comix can be found on Instagram, Webtoon, BlueSky, Cara, and in a print collection published by Source Point Press in 2020.

Linda Shields Swicker

Linda Shields Swicker is a mostly self-taught arts and music hobbyist, She has drawn inspiration from her family (father for painting and cousin for guitar.) Early paintings were on discarded sheetrock from father’s carpentry jobs. Those experiences led to a passion for repurposing materials.  Much later there was a shift to fabric arts, transforming discarded wool and cotton into vibrant quilts and rugs. This spirit of creative reuse has further evolved into paper collage—combining unfinished watercolors, vintage photos and thrifted ephemera. Linda enjoys creating stories from these antique finds in fun, colorful collages. She also enjoys playing guitar in her Irish band MILE LANE as well as working up tunes and songs on tenor banjo, mandolin and ukulele.