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Editor In Chief- Svetlana Blasucci Art Director- Tatiana Ayazo A magazine that isn’t just something to look at. A safe place to be free with your words and art. Soleil started as Clinic Magazine but changed to be closer to the sun. Light is in every word, image and line created in each issue. Ask questions, we welcome them. There are so many unseen artists and my mission is to bring them to the light. Expose them even if they don’t want to be. Challenge them and ask the real reason why art found them. We forget sometimes and get jaded by the recognition. I wanted to make something sprinkled with a little bit of this and that. Every theme falls under a category people tend to not appreciate. Soleil Magazine is for the underdogs. I spend most of time finding artists through the biggest artists. It’s amazing what you can find on Instagram, it’s like a dictionary for artists, just got to find them.
Editor In Chief- Svetlana Blasucci
Art Director- Tatiana Ayazo
A magazine that isn’t just something to look at. A safe place to be free with your words and art. Soleil started as Clinic Magazine but changed to be closer to the sun. Light is in every word, image and line created in each issue. Ask questions, we welcome them.
There are so many unseen artists and my mission is to bring them to the light. Expose them even if they don’t want to be. Challenge them and ask the real reason why art found them. We forget sometimes and get jaded by the recognition. I wanted to make something sprinkled with a little bit of this and that. Every theme falls under a category people tend to not appreciate.
Soleil Magazine is for the underdogs. I spend most of time finding artists through the biggest artists. It’s amazing what you can find on Instagram, it’s like a dictionary for artists, just got to find them.
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Katelyn Kopenhaver
Cartagena, Colombia
I took a multimedia, creative writing course
where I focused on poetry. My professor
deeply encouraged my use of words with
improper syntax and grammar and would a
ways ask for more reveal, more truth.
I became more intune with myself through
writing. Visually, I was greatly inspired (and
still am) by the work of Barbara Kruger and
Jenny Holzer, the controversy they would
provoke through words, and truth that they
would speak - so powerful.
With all of this seeping into my subconscious,
I began to repurpose and play with text. I
bought a series of naked lady paintings done
by artist Tom Sturgess from the 80s. I placed
controversial text atop them - I liked this, the
commentary and juxtaposition of intention(s)
between Tom and I.
Photographer
stepford cookie
In the beginning of my college experience I
experimented with fashion photography as
well as still life. I fined tuned these skills of
lighting, styling, makeup, hair, props. Playing
the roll of five people as one and it taught
me ALOT. Over time though, I pushed myself
with the work. I started appropriating fashion
pictures, printing on top of pictures,
scanning, painting, ripping up, printing again
etc. The work got messy, more collage-like
and this was different from the shiny
magazines pictures I often saw. I found
myself critiquing fashion instead of adding
to it. Senior year I started exploring the concept
of the construction of our identity and
the obsession with unattainable happiness
and perfection. It resulted in a body of work
called “Identity By Design.” “Why are your
pictures so angry?” Students in my critique
class would say… “huh?” I did not see it then
but clearly there was something getting
vexed inside of me. What do you have to say?
Is something that would circle around in my
mind often. I came to this point in my
schooling where I did not just want to make
beautiful pictures - I had something to say,
and I was scrambling to find it. I did this by
making a lot shitty work, risk taking and being
open to courses in school I had access to
that were not necessarily in my “department.”
NOTFORSALE, Las Vegas
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