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INTERVIEW | Godwin Constantine

INTERVIEW | Godwin Constantine

Godwin Constantine is a visual artist and performer from Sri Lanka. Having studied sociology, philosophy, and literature Godwin’s art practice is connected with varied disciplines, including medicine, neurobiology, sociology, poetry, and visual art. As an artist, his body is the primary medium of his artwork, as its presence creates an intimate appeal to the spectator.

INTERVIEW | Margarita Howis

INTERVIEW | Margarita Howis

Margarita Howis is a creative rebel and an artist by heart with a background in architecture. Her work is influenced by observing cultural differences and perspectives on authenticity, women's rights, and societal expectations. Through her experiences, she has come to understand the ways in which culture shapes our understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.

INTERVIEW | Hwang Sung Mi

INTERVIEW | Hwang Sung Mi

Hwang Sung Mi is a Korean visual artist. She received a B.F.A in Printmaking from the Hong-Ik University, in Seoul, South Korea. In her career, she has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in South Korea, Italy, and Greece, starting in 2008. Her work has been published internationally, in the press, and in artists' books. She works with plastic bags and laces to create flowers.

INTERVIEW | Yanming Chen

INTERVIEW | Yanming Chen

Yanming Chen is a UI/UX designer, originally from China. She devotes herself to the path of design for its features in avant-garde concepts, visual presentation, and commercial performance. Her inspiration comes from all details she captures in everyday life. She translates what she observes and how she feels into illustrations in her special tone. Her design is often the illustration of her effort in research and observation through vibrant colors in a minimalistic style.

INTERVIEW | Acquaetta Williams

INTERVIEW | Acquaetta Williams

Acquaetta Williams utilizes the feelings, thoughts, and memories inspired by African images to express their relevance to contemporary African American women. She has worked in a variety of mediums, including acrylic paint, glass, paper, canvas, and wood. The materials are diverse, addressing the surface and the depths of each form and connecting them to the stories that emerge from these environments.

INTERVIEW | Karim Abed

INTERVIEW | Karim Abed

Karim Abed was born in El-Kelâa (Tigzirt), a small village in North Africa. He moved to Ontario, Canada, in 2004, where he has lived ever since. His work explores the dynamics of human relations both at the individual and societal levels. Through his photos, he examines the impact of modernity on ancient cultures that are fighting for survival. The idea of power and how it is used in our day and age is at the center of his current work.

INTERVIEW | water-ish

INTERVIEW | water-ish

water-ish is a Japanese artist. She graduated in Jewelry Design and Gemology, and worked as a designer and Jewelry adviser, before turning to art. She lived in the US and currently resides in Japan, where she practice her art. She works with watercolor on paper, and realizes portraits. Every day she makes a different portrait, which she later shares on Instagram. Currently, she has approximately 7000 works.

INTERVIEW | Ksenia Tsyganyuk

INTERVIEW | Ksenia Tsyganyuk

Ksenia Tsyganyuk is a Russian artist living in Ukraine. Ksenia reveals the ideas of the inner growth of the personality, and the struggle for freedom through work with images of nature. her latest artworks reflect the theme of memory and identity, as well as the hope of a return to a peaceful life. She seeks points of support to rise and move forward, to help others rebuild their lives.

INTERVIEW | Marlene Jorge

INTERVIEW | Marlene Jorge

Marlene Jorge’s process is made of impromptu expression and unforced outbursts, and her compositions are like a personal diary, with works stemming from volatile emotions that well up within her mind and inquisitive spirit. She tries channeling her creative urges in order to produce unique artwork by extracting all creative juice from daily emotion-triggering activities as much as from more personal, deep realms.

INTERVIEW | Mira Mink

INTERVIEW | Mira Mink

Mira Mink is a poet and artist from Helsinki. Mink's ideas come from writing and thinking of writing. "Making art is important right now. I am also a writer, so my art can tell a lot of writing work." Mink's latest art project is an art book called Collection of Photopoetry, written in English and Italian. The book is illustrated with 69 textual images. And Mink has translated her poetry of three previous books.

INTERVIEW | Nemanja Regodic

INTERVIEW | Nemanja Regodic

Nemanja Regodic is a Serbian artist, from Novi Sad. Through his artistic experience, Nemanja tries to incorporate the motifs he encounters in everyday life and mix them with his own perceptions. They are very often strange or ominous, often evoking a certain feeling of mystery or unease. He continues experimenting with the drawings and creating his work through digital tools.

INTERVIEW | Alice Shapiro

INTERVIEW | Alice Shapiro

Mid-Emerging Artist Alice Shapiro (b.1946-) began her art career as a portraitist in pastels, oils, and acrylics and found digital creation to be a life-changing creative direction in her art career. Shapiro's influences are Bauhaus, Surrealism, the Collagists, Pop Art, and Installation. Spiritually and creatively, Shapiro sees herself as an interpreter-connector, with collage being the most significant medium to express the relevance of her work.

INTERVIEW | Gaspar Marquez

INTERVIEW | Gaspar Marquez

Gaspar Marquez is a self-taught freelance photographer and videographer doing Fine Art /Fashion & Lifestyle. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. He experiments with the Figure form. His work is a celebration of film photography, movement, Cubism, and scale. He attempts to blur these lines, mixing them up and creating an ambiguous vibration or optical illusion between a 2D image and the audience.

INTERVIEW | Yishi Deng

INTERVIEW | Yishi Deng

Yishi Deng is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Yishi Deng's artwork symbolizes the journey that is taken and finally seeing hope through warm colors. She often references everyday city life through her works and explores the relationship between loneliness and inner peace. Inspired by surrealism and minimalism, the subject matter of each piece is often pulled from reality and a hit of Yishi's imagination.

INTERVIEW | Badria Shamsi

INTERVIEW | Badria Shamsi

Badria Shamsi is an expressionist artist from UAE. Her work is an interpretation of how she feels and understands the emotions around her, as well as how she reacts to them. Her intention is to portray the complexity of emotions from one person to another. In each painting, there are different eyes: happy, laughing, careless, curious, boring, and many more. Therefore, it is interesting to define your mood today in a gathering and which eye is yours.