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Two-faced

Rebecca Castillo is an AP Drawing student finishing her junior year at PPCHS. Her favorite medium to use is graphite. She has always enjoyed drawing and also creates digital art such as “Two-faced,” the piece selected as cover art for the Spring 2022 Issue of the atala.

Decay

Decay was drawn by Gabrielle Shakir, a non-binary artist who mainly uses color pencil and acrylic to create surrealism. Gabrielle focuses on taking real world issues and symbolizing them through different compositions to invoke a sense of feeling for the viewers. This piece describes the feeling of despair in beauty, where even the most beautifulContinue reading “Decay”

Oil Spill

The sky is ash-blackened and heavy with smoke, making each inhale a gasping effort into the strip of cloth pressed to my mouth. The suffocating scent of gasoline still chokes the air as I stumble over the cracked earth and into a small clearing on the boardwalk. From here, I can see the dark lineContinue reading “Oil Spill”

Waste of Time

Marcella Lesmes is a junior at PPCHS and enjoys making art. She has been doing art for about 7 years. Although she usually uses acrylic paints, in this piece she went with watercolors and pens.

Adiela

*A sonnet is a fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter and following a particular rhyme scheme typically dictated by either Italian or English form rules. This sonnet qualifies as an English sonnet. I amputated my arm yesterday Blood relentlessly spilled out of the wound I watched it pour and I began to pray MaybeContinue reading “Adiela”

The Collective Unconscious, The Death Drive, and Cruel Optimism: Pessimism as a Framework for 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒅’𝒔 𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒆

In The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood’s use of the fairytale motif as a framework for the novel critiques our innate desire for archetypes, exposes the innocuous nature of oppression, and highlights the flaws of cruel optimism. Atwood subverts the innocence of predictable, archetypal tropes in fairy tales to call into question the concept of a hero.Continue reading “The Collective Unconscious, The Death Drive, and Cruel Optimism: Pessimism as a Framework for 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒅’𝒔 𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒆”

The Box

The world teaches us that we must fit into a box. What do you do when you can’t fit into all the many boxes? What do you do when every action you take goes against what society deems as normal? What do you do when your very skin goes against what the world sees asContinue reading “The Box”

“computer: atala”

Carolina Calonge has been in NEHS for two years now and enjoys reading historical fiction. She usually uses physical mediums such as ink to create her art, but created this piece digitally as cover art for the atala’s inaugural issue.

Rotten

Samantha Villafane is currently a rising senior, NEHS Board member, and atala editor at Pembroke Pines Charter High School. She has been drawing and painting since her freshman year and is currently taking AP Drawing. Although her favorite medium is acrylic paint, Rotten was created using watercolor and ink.

Pushing Up Lilies

The first morning I awoke under your roof, it was March, and I ventured into your garden for a stroll over installed stepping stone paths, towards cold, stony-faced statues to tend to flower beds in full splendor reclining like nudes in the sun while you, rigid, clothed, sat between busts of dead men over aContinue reading “Pushing Up Lilies”