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Brayden on What makes a great night with friends for you?
"I would say what makes a great night out with my friends is being able to hang out with everyone at once, being able to enjoy the pure energy of everyone having fun. I work 5-6 days a week which leaves little time for me to hang with all of my friends at once, so that’s why I look forward to the weekends where everyone is able to catch up.”
Cat, singer-songwriter on How does fashion inform your creativity?
"I see almost every form of creative expression as linked to one another and so fashion is no different. Designers are artists and fashion is just another iteration of art, and art is what constantly informs my creativity, just like I’d go to an art gallery to get inspired, I deep dive into fashion archives, runways and designers to do the same.
In my own creative projects my brain oftentimes works off of association, so when I’m writing a song I see images in my head that the music evokes, I start picturing visuals, music videos, styling etc. almost immediately.
So for me, fashion is just another avenue of expression that connects and intersects with the others, it’s an integral part of creating a visual world for the music to live in and creating a visual representation of the song.”
Costa Deligiannis, Animator & Visual Effects Artist on What are they trying to get better at?
"I think there's no surprise that being unique and creative doesn't always mean you can make money off of it. You get lucky sometimes and do things you love that can support you, but I’ve always separated the things I want to do and the things I have to.
Finding a way to be fulfilled in everything I do is difficult, but I want to be proud of my work without thinking it's a waste of time."
Fashion student, Marie on What are they trying to get better at?
"Having space to care for those around me, through self-care first. I want to increase interaction with nature, to consistently exercise and check in with myself.
I think It's also important to be in the present moment and be aware of what’s going around."
Graphic Designer, Jonathan Clancy on What are they trying to get better at?
"There's these expectations from yourself and others in trying to be productive. I think that I've set these ideas on myself that it's like a light-switch when I want to work on something, whether it's an illustration or any sort of self-improvement, but it's not like that at all"
"I always want to be a more creative person or to use my skills better, but I think that there's this barrier that I want to remove of needing to be doing something productive at all times to validate myself."
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Continuing a part of an unfinished collage series of early last century posters. I’m always fascinated by old Hollywood art and how bold, yet simple some of them can be. These posters had to be hand painted and then screen printed, leaving appreciating creases and subtle errors that bring them to life.
White Zombie (1932) was a touchstone for horror and a cultural footprint, part of a line of monumental influences starting even further 15 years ago on films like Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Acknowledging this however needs mention of its treatment of Haitian culture to create this horror. A level of exoticism and racism has since formed around Vodou that has maligned it unfairly for decades since.
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A collage series of striking and peculiar posters from early last century. Repeating and breaking down works to its basic components was cathartic, feeling as if you are searching for a threshold where the original and new meet.
The hardest part of creating something isn’t adding, but subtracting the old to find new ideas.
Later he could not recall the details of this dream, but that rush of piercing joy he did not forget. He had never known anything like it; so certain was its assurance of permanence, like one glimpse of a light that shines steadily, that he never thought of it as unreal though it had been experienced in dream.
Only, however reliable there, he could not reattain it either by longing for it or by the act of will. He could only remember it, waking. When he dreamed of the wall again, as he sometimes did, the dreams were sullen and without resolution.
-Ursula K. Le Guin
