In conversation with .. 4!
Welcome to our new digital issue: IN CONVERSATION WITH – Part 4, 148 pages art and illustrations! Out 01.06.2020 – featuring in conversation with Lee Freeman, Andrés Hernández , Ieva Ragauskaite, Suzanne Forbes, Albert Madaula, Norbert Bisky, Theresa Baxter, Yermine Richardson, ggggrimes, Ally Zlatar, Alva Skog, jaik puppyteeth, Cute Brute, TOMA, Daria Coxranima, Emma Weird, Klaus Kremmerz, postitpals, Molokid, Ruttu, TradeMark, Barbara Moura, Ole Paland. 2020 will forever be known as the year of the pandemic we’re all experiencing at the right now. We knew the Pre and it will be for sure a Post-COVID-19 Era. Over the last few days, some countries started to ease the conditions of their lockdown. The quarantine got to all of us, scared us, forced us to rearrange the way we live, work, communicate. In this special issue, we wanted to give light to artists, especially illustrators and painters, to know how his time affected their lives and their process. We wanted to showcase a different story ...
Welcome to our new digital issue: IN CONVERSATION WITH – Part 4, 148 pages art and illustrations! Out 01.06.2020 – featuring in conversation with Lee Freeman, Andrés Hernández , Ieva Ragauskaite, Suzanne Forbes, Albert Madaula, Norbert Bisky, Theresa Baxter, Yermine Richardson, ggggrimes, Ally Zlatar, Alva Skog, jaik puppyteeth, Cute Brute, TOMA, Daria Coxranima, Emma Weird, Klaus Kremmerz, postitpals, Molokid, Ruttu, TradeMark, Barbara Moura, Ole Paland. 2020 will forever be known as the year of the pandemic we’re all experiencing at the right now. We knew the Pre and it will be for sure a Post-COVID-19 Era. Over the last few days, some countries started to ease the conditions of their lockdown. The quarantine got to all of us, scared us, forced us to rearrange the way we live, work, communicate. In this special issue, we wanted to give light to artists, especially illustrators and painters, to know how his time affected their lives and their process. We wanted to showcase a different story ...
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I am very lucky to be able to<br />
continue working and that the<br />
work I do <strong>with</strong> collage I can do it<br />
from my home. But I do not allow<br />
this to consume all my day. I am<br />
looking for a variety of activities<br />
<strong>with</strong>in the possibilities that I have.<br />
At one point I find myself enjoying<br />
breakfast. Immediately afterwards<br />
I can work on some new series of<br />
collages and then, if the day allows<br />
it, enjoy a little sun and end the<br />
day <strong>with</strong> physical activity. The<br />
variety of activities allows me to<br />
not feel the burden of isolation so<br />
much.<br />
Have you used your work as escapism?<br />
Yes, yes, yes, yes I have. Like it or not, work is, was and will<br />
be for me a form of escapism. I really enjoy doing what I<br />
do, that is why I can spend hours and hours immersed in<br />
the new universe that I am creating. Thankfully, I don’t<br />
know if it’s because I’m more predisposed to create new<br />
pieces of art, or “more liberated” but I’m giving myself the<br />
opportunity to explore much more in collages.<br />
Have any unexpected benefits come out of this current<br />
situation for you?<br />
Despite all the bad aspects that we may be experiencing<br />
because of this epidemic, over time, I was able to rescue<br />
positive points. One of the first things I can think of is<br />
that I can spend a lot more time on artistic work than I do.<br />
But also, one of the positive aspects and I think that it is<br />
more enriching is that I was able to face many things that<br />
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