Doubly Mad

https://doublymad.org/

Magazine

Fiction, Poetry, Visual Art

2004

Utica, NY

William Welch

Editor

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Doubly Mad is a biannual literary and visual arts journal published by The Other Side of Utica, Inc. Our mission is to foster artists wherever they may live and work by providing them with an in-print venue to share the results of their efforts and imaginations. It is our conviction that art is a modus vivendi which everyone has the ability to pursue in their own fashion, whether on a “professional” level or for “personal satisfaction.” We disagree with the commonly held view that “art is useless.” On the contrary, our view is that devotion to an art is one of the surest ways, perhaps the only way, to liberate oneself from the top-down hegemony of our society, both in its overt and subtle manifestations, because devotion to an art begins with an assertion of an individual’s experience. To create requires a person to open, at least partially, to an intuitive self, which can instigate opportunities for reflection, self and social scrutiny, as well as celebration, mourning, humor — the gambit, essentially, of human experience.

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