Jeff writes:
"Blue Blue Blue Flame" and "Blue Flame" are images of a shoe box stuffed with tissue paper on a high-wood-grain dining room table. I happened past the dining room table and saw the tissue jetting out of the box, which spoke to me aesthetically, and I thought, "Photo." I played with the lighting and the position of the box on the table, and I got a set of photos, which I then digitally manipulated. To me, the images play between flame and flower, and the simplicity of petal-flame presence, being no more than opened-up tissue paper, makes the images work.

Jeff Crouch is an amateur artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. He plays at art as though it were a game of hide-and-go-seek. His graphic work has appeared in The Blue Smoke Band, Poems Niederngasse, ardent, moria, eratio postmodern poetry, Ancient Heart Magazine, Speculative Fiction Centre, JMWW, Quill and Ink, Stirring: A Literary Collection, Spoiled Ink, Lunatic Chameleon, Triplopia, Events Quarterly, Skive Magazine, Subtle Tea, Literary Vision Magazine (LitVision), Prose Toad, Lily, Ink Pot, Generator Press (April 2006 Exhibit), Monkey Kettle, BluePrintReview, DogEar, Expose’d, Misanthropists Anonymous (with Molly Crouch), Above Ground Testing (with Molly Crouch), Dicey Brown, Unpleasant Event Schedule, The Dreaming Pool, Underground Window, 63 Channels, The Lampshade, Cezanne’s Carrot Literary Journal, Bending Spoons, Unlikely Stories, The Aurora Review, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Twisted Tongue, Mad Hatter’s Review, decomP, The Sidewalk’s End, DISPATCH Literary Review, and zafusy, with more forthcoming in Forklift Ohio and The Centrifugal Eye. His artwork was also published in the Vernal Equinox issue of Cezanne's Carrot.