About
The Subtext Review, founded and run by Neil Czeszejko, is a publication exploring how meaning is created, felt, and refracted through perception.
In its digital form, it functions as a gallery of language in action: a space where words shape sensation, intent takes visual form, and temporal sequencing mirrors grammar.
The Gallery Within
The Subtext Review’s sections offer focused explorations of perceptual and subtextual nuances:
Viewlines delves into the ambiguity of subtext within the act of seeing. It considers how observation guides interpretation, projection shapes emotion, and meaning emerges through what we notice—or overlook.
Overtones explores how narratives take form through image and sound. It leans into tone, rhythm, and framing, revealing how the senses shape meaning, with sequencing acting as the work’s narrative logic.
Through the Post-Human Archive, Overtones engages with generative processes, creating forms that challenge human frameworks and provoke responses beyond our control. Hallucinations are treated as part of a longer creative and reflective lineage, informing the publication’s inquiry into perception, affect, and non-human sense-making.
The homepage brings together all the TSR sections, offering stories, literary reviews, puzzles, literary cartoons, and essays that probe how language shapes the world we inhabit.
The Founder
Neil’s background spans English language teaching, narrative design, content development, editing, and work in the AI space. Across his experiences, he continues to explore the mechanics of language and meaning-making, particularly how expressive forms—both textual and visual—mediate perception.
His academic grounding in how language operates within cultural contexts is complemented by certified training across text, design, and interaction, including:
writing for the stage (University of Cambridge, ICE),
UX writing and design psychology, including color theory (Uxcel),
AI (University of Helsinki; University of Tartu),
advanced conversation design (Google).
This combination of study and practice shapes his understanding of language as a living structure, operating across modes to shape sensation, emotion, and insight. TSR extends this pursuit, treating language as both subject and medium.
Generative Dialogue
Every TSR visual that bears a watermark is created through iterative dialogue between generative processes and deliberate artistic direction, using ambiguity as a space for exploring subtext and narrative depth.
Disclaimer
Overtones, TSR’s audio-visual exhibit, and Viewlines, TSR’s art gallery, are independent projects and are not affiliated with any other entities, works, or projects of the same or similar names.
Likewise, The Subtext Review remains an independent publication, with full autonomy over its editorial direction.
