Cloud Factory #5
half letter
Laura Walker
Bend OR 97708
Cloud Factory is a zine created by Laura Walker and Ryan
Homsley. If you’ve read my previous reviews you know that Ryan is a writer and
an artist and currently incarcerated in Oregon .
Cloud Factory #5 could be subtitled “Revelations”. Ryan delves into details
surrounding his drug use and bank robbery which landed him in jail. Laura talks
about her unconventional wedding. They both lift the veil and discuss the
collaboration behind the scenes of the creation of Cloud Factory. Plus there
are Ryan’s intense essays, Ryan’s vivid artwork, and lots of conversation (on
paper) between Ryan and Laura.
This is probably the first issue in which I felt some
sadness – not only for Ryan’s situation but for the violence that he grew up
around, which would scar and wound the best of us. I also felt some sadness
around both Laura and Ryan’s dire attitudes expressed toward spirituality. But
then I mentally rewind twenty years and held many of those same beliefs at that
point in my life.
I can not recommend Cloud Factory as a zine highly enough. It
is on my must read list.
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