In the story, based loosely on Russian and German folk tales, Odette is an enchanted princess under a spell of the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart; she has been transformed into a swan by day and can only regain her human form at night.

I "I'm a man without a shadow / in a room without walls" is a song lyric that could easily describe Hunter Bell's existentialist self-concept. The lyric is from Omni-Morphist's first EP, "We may be a joke. But it's a joke you can believe in." Hunter Bell and Aaron Slaughter formed Omni-Morphist when a sound check resulted in a 28-minute song.

Think of the infinite amount of ways you can fill space. Without even thinking, you are filling space right now. It's kind of what we do, at least for the brief flicker in time we get here on earth and hereafter when we leave behind our bones. Think of this little rock we call home, floating like a spec in the perpetual depth of the universe.

article and essay photos by Stephen Humphreys One thing you usually miss in art galleries and museums is the artist. That can be one of the pleasures of being a good collector, to gain entr&ea