

A LIFE JOURNEY ON WOOD
Look down, are you sitting on a chair? If you are, do you know who made it, can you feel and see the grain of the wood, can you describe...


"TO LIVE DOING WHAT I LOVE"
With a sardonic humor, he can’t seem to help carrying into his art, the Spanish born filmmaker Lander Camarero says that at seventeen he...


BRIDGING THE GAPS BETWEEN MYTH, HISTORY, AND THE NOW THROUGH INTERPRETATIVE DANCE
How does one grapple with a history of colonization and all that comes with it? How can ancient myth and wisdom be brought into the...


OBSESSIONS OF MEMORY AND DISPLACEMENT
There is something in Hadieh Afshani’s eyes, an absence or loss and it is this feeling that carries into her sparse but complex drawings...


ILLUSTRATIONS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
It has long been said that parody and satire have the ability to speak deeper truths than forms that are tasked too heavily with being...


COMPASSION AS A STATE OF BEING
"Art has always been a way of expressing feelings that I did not know how to cure. It still is and I think it's a healthy way to discover...


“STAY STRONG, BELIEVE IN HELL, AND FALL IN LOVE WITH ME”
"Stay Strong, Believe in Hell and Fall In Love With Me" is the title of one of Maksym Kazarin's paintings, and this title is a great tell...


JAPANESE DESIGN MADE TO LAST
Among wooden chairs and oval cabinets, we find Shuya Iida, who left Okayama, Japan, to become one of the most distinguished industrial...


REALITY IS COMPLEX AND MULTILAYERED
"These visual effects came from my passion for video editing and are a natural evolution of the craft. These techniques allowed me to...


MELODIES FOR LONELINESS
The music of Barbara Kiss involves a vital and energetic melody combined with sweet poetry. Through this music one can glimpse the life...