Vee Hua 華婷婷"The training I received as as an illustrator emphasized the importance of aesthetic versatility. The way something is illustrated can have a big impact on the narrative. A lot of my technical work focuses on the tangibility of aesthetic."
Dictators! Love them or hate them (philosophically-speaking), it's hard to argue that a Communist aesthetic a la Mao Zedong or Joseph Stalin doesn't have a compelling color palette and welcome vintage grain associated with it. Perhaps in spite of...
"I’m not trying to hold people’s hands. I’m not trying to make titles that go and tell you a specific way to look at the painting… That’s just the way I guess I am. I would never preach anything to anyone."
"I was feeling a little lost and unsure about the future of my art career in Seattle, and I just wanted to make something fun that didn't have anything to do with the contemporary art world."
Netherlands-based photographer Jan Reurink can’t get enough of Tibet, and captures Tibetan landscape and everyday life with a dedicated selfless passion. In our brief Q&A with Reurink below, he tells us about the rainbow plethora of reasons he keeps...
Tessa Hulls"[Religion is] all a sham, but I'm being up front about it and putting it out on the table. I enjoy that aspect of it; it's the old switcheroo!"
"... As a person, I just really love to dig and dig and dig... I like it when there's a whole series of layers underneath."
"I [would] just always go to thrift stores and just see these beautiful, beautiful blankets and stuff that were like two bucks... Now, the aesthetic has come into fashion, so it's kind of like, of course people see that stuff and like it – but when...