looking to the heavens by rosie villano

About the book: looking to the heavens combines poetry, short prose, and photographs to explore self, queerness, and the transitional process of becoming an adult. The narrative explores opening up, looking out, losing faith, and re-emerging with shaky but renewed beliefs. This photographic memoir captures the artist’s life in Pittsburgh through self-portraits, emotive landscapes, and portraits of friends. The photographs highlight the beauty, vulnerability, and precarity of that time.

About the author: Rosie Villano is a non-binary multidisciplinary artist born and raised in the Berkshires of Connecticut. They are a photographer, writer, painter, and designer interested in the cross sections between mediums. Rosie’s work explores people, light, and structures caught in liminal spaces. They earned a BFA in Drama and a Minor in History at Carnegie Mellon. During their time in an intensive theatre program, Rosie designed for theatre, opera, and film productions. Rosie’s photographs have been featured in the fall issue of Meliorism Magazine and MFA Photography Reviews’ Homecoming Classes of 2020 & 2021. Most recently, their work was included in Vestige Concept Gallery’s Stripped Down Exhibit.