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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Mark Wardel<br />
AKA TradeMark<br />
London, UK<br />
@mark_wardel<br />
It’s been almost 2 months since selfisolation<br />
has been enforced worldwide, how<br />
are you feeling?<br />
As someone who works pretty much alone,<br />
self-isolation is not, in truth very different<br />
from my usual state so it’s not affecting me<br />
as badly as it is others. What I do hate is that<br />
I can’t go anywhere, London is basically<br />
boarded up and I miss hanging out in Soho<br />
<strong>with</strong> friends.<br />
What have you been doing to pass your time<br />
in quarantine?<br />
From the start I decided to use the situation<br />
to get down to a lot of projects I’d been<br />
meaning to start, to keep busy and not think<br />
too heavily about the new reality we are<br />
currently imprisoned in. For the first few<br />
weeks, I produced a new drawing each day,<br />
I’m also working on a book/art project and<br />
have several commissions for portraits and<br />
paintings. Aside from this and to try to ease<br />
some of the boredom of my Facebook friends<br />
I have been running weekly ‘corona colouring<br />
competitions’ in which I post a line drawing which they colour in and the<br />
winner gets to own the original.<br />
How has the situation affected your work?<br />
I find that <strong>with</strong> fewer distractions I’m more productive than usual.<br />
Do you have a day-to-day lockdown routine?<br />
No, I’m not that organised but I do work every day 7 days a week for at least<br />
part of the day I keep meaning to start an exercise routine as I’m missing the<br />
gym but so far this hasn’t happened.<br />
Have any unexpected benefits come out of this situation for you?<br />
Yes, the lack of distractions, extra time to use, far less pollution (for the first<br />
time I can remember, the air in London is fresh!) and importantly a lot of time<br />
to consider how we as a society have been living and think about new ways.<br />
What do you wish for the future?<br />
I’d like to see the world/society re-balanced but <strong>with</strong> the current ‘powers that<br />
be’ I’m not optimistic.<br />
Where can we buy your art?<br />
My online store TrashDNA.com is currently closed because of the lockdown<br />
but I am about to start putting some work for sale on <strong>In</strong>stagram also I can be<br />
contacted through my website www.trademarkart.com.<br />
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