Inhale/Exhale // Faith47 Interview
Hanging out with our friend Faith47 in her studio while she was finishing up work for her latest exhibition Clair Obscure.Liberty’s journey as an artist began on the streets of South Africa in 1997,as a young graffiti writer known as Faith47She rose to prominence on the international street art scene before becoming widely recognised for her multidisciplinary artistic practice.Monumental and intimate, private and public, her artwork takes the form of murals, sculptures,video installations, tapestries and drawings.Deconstructing notions of value and place, investigating forms of domination,she explores the shapes of human perception.In quest of the divine, she expresses a longing for a deeper connection to the wisdoms of the natural world.
PHOTO JOURNAL // Azeros Lin
Based in Shanghai, visual artist and author Azeros visited a Tibetan Tribe to document the faces and immerse hiself with the people as a part of his social work.Traveling around the world for a long time Azeros focuses on recording and exploring human relationships and their independent characteristics through video, pictures and words.
A Lack of Intimacy // Vivian Greven Interview
While for some it may be hard to intimate, Vivian Greven’s paintings embrace it and encourage you to do so as well. Its very easy to close your self off and hold back, but sometimes it can freeing to connect and allow yourself to spill some things from the inside out.The relationship between two people is something that will never go away and each relationship we have will effect the others, present and future. We all hold the power to mediate, we all hold the power to heal, to effect and to influence, so why not use them.
It's Later Than You Think // Sluto Interview
Sluto let us into his world for a few days. We took a look at his studio where he makes his mosaics that he puts up in the streets. We painted some graffiti in the nearby train yard and took a nice stroll around his neighborhood showing us some his pieces.
Ukrainian Pride // Maya Hayuk Interview
We visited Ukranian painter Maya Hayuk in her studio to show her process Talking about her Ukrainian heritage and what the war and Russian Invasion meant to her.
Signs of Hallucination and Madness QRCKY Interview
Baltimore Painter Qrcky shares his experience through a very unique lens of disbelief and illusion. His surrealist work lives in a world that lies beneath the surface of perception, a world filled with the trauma, pain he had to overcome.