About the Artist:
Aaron Lelito is a visual artist and writer from Buffalo, NY. His images have been published as cover art in Red Rock Review, Peatsmoke Journal, and The Scriblerus. His poetry chapbook, The Half Turn, was published in 2023, and his work has also appeared in Barzakh Magazine, Novus Literary Arts Journal, SPECTRA Poets, The Primer, and Santa Fe Review. Lelito is editor in chief of a literature website Wild Roof Journal.
Artist Statement:
In my photography and digital art, I am primarily drawn to the patterns and imagery of nature.
This subject matter has become a way for me to reflect on the larger themes of environment,
climate, and ecology. Along with this macro view, however, there is the micro—one's personal,
subjective relationship with nature. There are restorative, therapeutic, and transcendent aspects of
interacting with the waves, flowing water, leaves, and branches. To me, these simple patterns
have a deep resonance with the transformations that are a part of the human condition.
I often engage with these fundamental shapes and patterns because I tend to see creative
potential in these images, not only in the narrative sense of “telling a story,” but in their ability to express what often lays dormant in our everyday surroundings, a vision of what remains unseen by a passing view.
In addition to my photographic work, I am Editor in Chief of the online publication Wild RoofJournal, which features an eclectic mix of visual art, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. In 2023, I published a poetry chapbook titled The Half Turn.