My path has been quite unexpected. I studied literature and built a career in event planning, later working independently with decorative objects. Surrounded by beauty and curated spaces, I felt a growing pull toward artistic expression. Last year, I finally decided to follow that calling fully, and it opened an entirely new chapter in my life.
I feel the emotional charge of a symbol before its exact meaning. Often the symbol arrives unconsciously, and reasoning catches up over time, layering understanding gradually like a processing phase. Because of this process, ambiguity naturally enters the work. At the same time, I also cultivate ambiguity intentionally. The way I frame and position a symbol is as important as the symbol itself. Its placement becomes a device to open multiple interpretations rather than close them down.
EJ Lee is an interdisciplinary artist who transforms language into physical form. Her work often begins with autobiographical poems that explore experiences with dyslexia, trauma, and healing, which then shape the materials, colors, and forms of each piece. From sewn works to wearable garments and installations, her practice turns the instability and imperfections of language into a method for creating meaning.
Aesthetic perception has a great deal to do with ray and mathematics. And then there is untamed human nature, in its search for expansiveness and freedom of spirit. This tendency towards sequences has stayed with me to this day.
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The painting itself is a portal to the realm of beyond. It encourages a different way of perception. Someone has to be a little distracted, a little scared, and confused to start seeing things differently or as they are. First must be reluctance, then awareness of worth looking further, and the perception of vision afterward. The mind should get preparation in order to be focused differently. We live in a world where focus is fixed, as life is. To a much greater extent, this is established by the system and could be shifted. I encourage the spectator to learn to look without prejudice. This is my goal.
I like to imagine that my pieces will go on to live their own lives once they leave my hands. I create each work with care and intention, but I don’t expect the meaning to stay fixed. Jewelry is something that becomes complete only when it is worn, and I love the idea that each wearer will add their own memories, emotions, and associations to it.
Aomi Kikuchi is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice develops from textiles to sculpture, installation, and mixed media. Inspired by Buddhist philosophy: impermanence, insubstantiality, and suffering, and the Japanese aesthetics: wabi-sabi (imperfection), mono-no-aware (sensitivity), along with environmental issues, she aims to show viewers the transience of the material world, while also promoting the importance of compassion.
In my work, the space between figuration and abstraction allows me to move away from literal representation and focus on what makes a form feel alive. Rather than describing anatomy, I build forms according to an internal logic — guided by balance, tension, rhythm, and movement. This gives me the freedom to explore presence as something physical and perceptual, not symbolic or narrative.
I achieve a balance between documentation and abstraction by approaching visual ethnography as an interpretive process rather than a mere direct of reality. It helps me uncover what already exists as a foundation for the documentation phase, which forms the knowledge base of the work. In this phase, I am committed to prolonged observation, immersion in the cultural context, and the collection of images and visual materials as evidence of lived experience, while respecting the privacy of the place and the people and their symbolic meanings.
My creative process is absolutely an excavation of my internal landscape on all layers, mental, emotional, physical and spiritual in that given moment and to use the archaeology reference, some things are easier to excavate than others depending on how many layers it is buried beneath. This is reflected in my work, the deeper the emotion, the memory or experience, the more layers of paint, the more activity and energy is required to achieve the release.
Iyad Almosawi is a versatile and talented artist with award-winning works across various genres. He masterfully blends technique and vision in his paintings, sculptures, murals and installations, exploring inner energies and emotions. His murals, which bring color and life to public spaces reflect his love for nature. Through his art, he transforms spaces, making them accessible and inviting for people to admire and engage with.
Most of my chosen canvases and surfaces are conscious decisions. It begins with the size of the canvas and then the structure. This decision is very important. The painting process is a constant making of choices which influence, enormously, the result. Sometimes I struggle with the surface and ask it what it wants. To work against the surface is contradictory. For example, I chose a very plain canvas surface for the painting -love- , as I wanted the black color to drop down on it, to express the fluid existence of love. According to the philosopher Heraclitus, “Everything flows…”
Rose Masterpol is an artist of considerable importance. Her paintings do not imitate the world. They reorganize it. They reveal the underlying patterns that shape experience. They invite the viewer to slow down, to recalibrate attention, and to discover the richness that exists beneath the surface of perception. Her three decades of creative exploration have culminated in a body of work that speaks with remarkable authority and poetic intelligence.
Aleksandra Ciążyńska’s paintings, then, are not simply artworks. They are instruments of perception, catalysts for attentiveness, and invitations to dwell more meaningfully in the world. Her talent lies in the rare ability to make viewers feel that the world is worthy of wonder and that they themselves are capable of perceiving that wonder. Her contribution to contemporary art is already significant, and her trajectory promises even greater impact. She is an artist who restores faith in the power of painting and demonstrates, with impressive clarity, that art remains one of society’s most profound tools for illumination and renewal.
Gustavs Filipsons stands as one of the most compelling abstract artists of his generation: a visionary whose works vibrate with psychological force, whose textures carry the weight of spiritual inquiry, and whose commitment to originality has forged a language entirely of his own. His paintings, layered, dynamic, eruptive, meditative, form an atlas of interiority, a testament to the enduring power of abstraction to reveal what the rational mind cannot grasp.
Yasmina Barbet, is a French photographer trained at the IED in Rome, developed in Paris a visual approach enriched by drawing, art history, and image processing. Upon returning to Rome, she created a personal online photographic archive in 2008.
Born in 1957 in Antwerp, Belgium, Karel Vereycken graduated from the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels and trained in engraving at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, where he obtained a certificate of passage « with distinction. ». Today, in France, he concentrates on writing about art history, producing audio guides and of course watercolors and engravings. In France, as a member of the Fédération nationale de l’estampe, he confirmed his technical mastery at Atelier63 and continued to perfect his skills in the Montreuil workshop of Danish engraver Bo Halbirk.
Painting to me has been a spiritual journey for over 50 years. I have to my credit more than 300 paintings of oils on canvas. My genre of art is photo-realism, expressionism and hyper-realism. I am particularly passionate about preserving Nature and my intention and purpose is to bring awareness to the beauty of the environment we live in so that we as human beings take action to preserve and appreciate all aspects of it: Through portraits of people, birds and animals - I bring out the true essence of their personalities and immortalize their moments.
Frasquito Raymond-Gil Urquijo, born in Jerez de la Frontera, is a grotesque, tragicomic, and unapologetically absurd alter ego of his creator—a surreal mix of Andalusian roots, cosmopolitan wanderlust, and obsessive curiosity. His art is naïve, conceptual, and intentionally imperfect: flat perspectives, rudimentary techniques, and unpredictable outcomes give each piece kitsch, personality, and grotesque charm. Inspired by eccentric people, peculiar anecdotes, and the absurdities of life—from Holy Week processions with freshmen balanced on doors, to goat-bleating classmates, to the chaos of global cities.
