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Vela Magazine

A study of being human

The magazine weaves Vela’s four lenses — figurative art, the vocabulary of emotion, the literary and contemplative inheritance, and the behavioral sciences — into essays, fiction, and criticism.

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Life Drawing

A story in five images.

He signs up for the advanced class because the intermediate class doesn't have a live model and he is twenty-two years old and he has been drawing figures from photographs for three years and he wants to draw from life.

6 min read · Jan 15, 2026

Arlen Ngozi — staff writer

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