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Michael A. Davenport

Feast:Dream by Michael A. Davenport

Let me introduce you to the Glory Hole Painter.

I met this complex vibe wrapped into an artist in our high school days. Watching him bloom can only be described as inspirational. It seemed only fitting that the first creative mind I feature is also the first person I purchased a print from.

Hilarious, expressive, queer, multitalented, vulnerable, provocative and without a doubt creative beyond description, this is the artwork of Michael A. Davenport.

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Begin, Collaborative Collapse.

Collaborative Collapse

I’ll have this fully written out and published privately long before I launch this site.

Even though I am unsure of how to pull this off, welcome to Vol. 1.

My name is Hal, I’m a journalist sworn into the service of a dying industry.

And this is Insightly, a digital magazine born in the destruction of media quality.

The career I thought I would continue into with my post grad walk is going bankrupt before my eyes.

Each morning I see another alert about the spiraling corruption of news.

The posts I scroll by color its collapse in authoritarian capitalism and insatiable greed.

And as I scroll through the slaughter, time flies coaxing away our freedoms as it leaves us behind.

I’ll write on for the sake of it anyways, my hands grow unsteady if I do not.

I build what I can out of the words I’ve spent thousands on collecting.

Trading flimsy electrical dollar signs for an entrance to an even flimsier foundation.

So join me in this creation and share what you pour into as the crumbling structure around us razes it out of you.

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