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INTERVIEW | Jiabao Sun

INTERVIEW | Jiabao Sun

Jiabao Sun is a visual artist and photographer originally from China, and currently based in the USA. Jiabao’s work continually explores the variability and ambiguity of emotions and personal feelings. Her artistic expression is not limited in form, using photography, alternative photographic processes, and poetry to visualize the thoughts and dialogues inside her. Her latest project is titled Noēsis.

INTERVIEW | Darya Fard

INTERVIEW | Darya Fard

Darya M. Fard is a multidisciplinary artist from Iran, currently based in the USA. She has a very strong interest in visual art, especially printmaking, drawing, and painting, intersecting with other mediums like photography, video, installation, sound, and dance. Her work examines universal connection through creating metaphorical and symbolic mythical creatures inspired by Persian poetry and mythology.

INTERVIEW | Man Zhu

INTERVIEW | Man Zhu

Man Zhu is a fine art photographer originally from China, and currently based in New York. Her latest series, UnFrame: Relationship, is a body of photo-based works through which she explores her subconscious behavior by showing her relationships with people around her. The creative process draws on the principles of semiotics, appropriating and retaining each subject’s past, and integrating them into self-portraiture.

INTERVIEW | Fatima Franks

INTERVIEW | Fatima Franks

Contemporary interdisciplinary artist Fatima Franks attempts to address critical cultural issues of our times, especially in the context of women. Franks attempts to address factors that stigmatize the role of the female gender. By witnessing a burgeoning rise of progressive thinking in women, especially in the East and Islamic world, her work illustrates these growing and adapting times of multiculturalism.