3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Photographer converted to artist Ivan Meruvan shares his passion depicted with oil on canvas. Starting from shooting nature in an abstract manner Ivan continues exploring textures and forms with unlimited expression.
I love the central library in KC because I always have loved/collected libraries: I go to one in every place I visit. They're pretty fair places. Everyone is welcomed, and we all share the same resources. They're reservoirs of culture, and the KC library is exquisite, so full of history, it's grand, it's full of different people and the quiet is so full. Finally, I love the giant slide in concourse park because it's brilliant and I take kids there all the time, and I think it's fun to try and remember how to be a kid. Oh and I love uptown arts bar because I used to sing at the open mics there and that was my introduction to a KC community, - Laura Kennedy
Not in kc: The Smokey mountains, Sumter national forest, the burren ireland. In kc st, James on troost, the slabs in Gillham park, Mattie rhodes, the central library, The giant slide in concourse park? Well I grew up in Kentucky running around in the woods, so the Smokeys and Sumter remind me of the green hills and mountains of home. There's something very comforting about being surrounded by wildness and green. You can't escape the growing things, even though there are these deep shadows. For me the South is a place of enormous tragedy but it's inseparable from my roots. For kc, I love the slabs because I lived kind of close to gillham park and we used to walk down there and have drinks and watch the sunset and marvel at the graffiti. It's a beautiful example of a neighborhood/community adapting a space.
“/ / MOVING | | GHOSTS / / is an ongoing project that I started at the beginning of 2019 where I am collaborating with people to create portraits of them in locations important to them while wearing their favorite outfit.
I ask people to wear their favorite outfit is because clothes show where that person is at that period of their life, how they feel & have been feeling. The clothes express who they want to be and in turn, give them confidence. I am interested in sharing who people are and the connection that comes with that. The catch is that they have to hide their face. I ask that people cover their face because it kills the model / identity but allows for other parts of who they are to come out in the image.
Important locations come from the idea of boudoir. Boudoir comes from the french word bouder meaning: to sulk. Historically, sulking was seen as something one would do privately, and the term bouder came to encapsulate a room where one would go to withdraw and be quietly alone. A bouder was a place of intimacy and privacy, where one could express their true selves without fear of judgment or punishment.”
“I usually do Barnes and noble or level one at the river market It’s where I go to find solice. Manga and stuff like dnd is a healthier escape from my anxiety than drugs or alchohol Yeah through drugs and alcohol but that turned dark fast so now I run dnd games and make my own stories and when I’m done with school I wanna travel. It’s more life is mundane and I want to adventure. That’s actually why I model I wanna travel to all the fashion capitals and get paid for it”, - Chance
“I’ve tried to think about it a lot! But I love nature, I have a bunch of plants. I think the path that I’ve been going in, I end up growing in different aspects. I can only imagine that being reciprocated visually through nature. I believe life is a simulation”, - Victoria
St. James is incredibly diverse, open-minded and social justice oriented. It is a church focused primarily on people, which gives me a great deal of hope. It's also just an incredibly happy place. Mattie Rhodes is where I work, and I think it's the happiest place on earth. It's three floors of recycled/donated art supplies and decades of children's artwork.
Checkout Zero is an anti-consumerist visual tale by French photographer Pol Kurucz . In a not so distant future when all, even the soul is on sale, eccentric cashiers interact with peculiar products of a factory-like supermarket. Through visual allegories and pop aesthetics each female protagonist uses their singularities to provoke us and challenge wild capitalist, gender and aesthetic norms. Checkout Zero was shot in Sao Paulo with local models and queer artists. The series mixes fine art and fashion elements and features creations from local brands.
Talented Mr.Frukta, one of our earlier collaborator and motion design youngest star, released his new showreel summing up a decade of a personal career
El Greco, Salvador Dalí and Egon Schiele went in to the bar and met Hana Ju depicting the madness of real world in a way she got blood mix from all of them.
“I looked at myself on the canvas, painted with different colors, and I faced the courage that I still could not get through. I decided to subtract a lot of the rhetoric that I used to express myself. I pulled away from the bubbles and decoration which was on me, just me being myself, I took out the colors on my canvas to meet my raw self. Through this series of processes, I tried to look at myself, who was in a deeper place, that I ignored, as who I am. I want to accept it. I believe that my gaze will be able to face others without judging, and accept them as who they are.”
Danielle Orchard is a New York-based painter zooming on the female universe. Her abstract art, at times, evokes associations with cubism – the subject makes the difference
Talented animator and graphic designer from Barcelona, David Pocull shares his latest experiments
“In the industrial city of Genk in Belgium, a kilometer of steel corridors was constructed to form a mechanical-look maze at a former coal mine. The installation titled Labyrinth is created as a spiral experience by Gijs van Vaerenbergh in collaboration with the Belgium architect Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh.
The labyrinth contains various openings and perspectives throughout the maze and makes the viewer experience an ever-changing relationship with the surrounding urban environment.” via @trendland
The essence of being a creative professional is the ‘Art of Freestyle.’ This for Munky (GMUNK or Bradley G Munkowitz) means delving deep into the PsyMunk and finding those symmetries of craft and fruition that make the passion stream with inspired output. The Mathographics series is a culmination of that research, the purity and fabric of graphic design infused with optical distortions and anomalies to create statements of immersive intent and perpetual translation. The series first takes form as a series of kaleidoscopic movements, sequenced together into a short film scored and edited by frequent collaborator CallMeClark.
Find more on Behance
Teo & Carlos (very well) known as DVEIN dropped an experimental animation we believe they did during quarantine. “We've been playing, messing and having fun with flamingos for a while. We love them, but we love even more experimenting with them. This is an ongoing experiment and DVEIN VS FLAMINGOS is a collection of these animation experiments that we've crafted with Banjo Soundscapes as partners in crime.”
Moving illustration for [INVADE ART] exhibit created by Mr Misang, depicting a legend of “Nasus and Shurima”
“Sebastian Weiss is a Hamburg-based architecture photographer with a flair for exquisite, impeccable angles. Having documented sites such as Spanish La Muralla Roja for Wallpaper* and Parisian suburbia, he is also the author of “Dramatic personae” series that aims to “represent public faces that deliberately restrains the identity of the object in order to concentrate on its public performance” via @trendland
Creative duo Leta Sobierajski and Wade Jeffree delivered their first international exhibition “Music To Your Eyes”. They bring our distinctly optimistic, unapologetically vibrant, and supremely fun world of explosive colour to Calm and Punk's gallery space in Tokyo.
Music to your eyes is an exploration of harmony through visual stimulation of our work in order to explore colour and form. Our goal is to ignite a sensation for the viewer that is optimistic yet also leaves them with a sense of joy. Ultimately it is our way we describe our work: as visual music. Similar in concept to audible music, everything we look at and engage with has its own rhythm. Through the use of multiple mediums ranging from photography, wall reliefs, inflatables and a virtual reality experience, we encourage visitors to enter their world of insatiable optimism and explosive color.
The photographs on these walls are real—they are not 3D. The bodysuits were designed specifically for this show, and the sculpted shields held by those bodies were cut and painted by hand. We embrace the fact that they are imperfect and flawed. In the photographs on the walls, we camouflage ourselves as body sculptures, drenched in pattern and color that transcends from these images to sculptural wall hangings to inflatables hanging from the ceiling and finally to virtual reality discoverable through a headset. Our goal is to extend their vision to multiple dimensions, so you may enjoy their colorful world no matter which reality you may live in.
A creative collaboration between Nikita and Maria Replyanski and Kirill Maksimchuk from the world of Cyber Warrior. In this art project, they research a nature of an artificial personality. Team has created 8 characters by mixing real shooting, 3D printing, computer graphics, fashion, and art to find the identity of a nowadays person. The collaboration was presented at the Digital Fashion Exhibition curated by @trashymuse at EP7 in Paris during the Fashion Week {23 September to 1st October 2019}
Art direction & Concept Design: @n.replyanski
Photo: @notyouramericandream
Style: @katrin_white
VFX: @nomorerender
Graphic Design & Typography: @electroseela
Filippa Edghill is a Swedish/Barbadian painter and illustrator living in Biarritz, France. We focus on her block prints series, depicting feminine in a simple one-colour manner with an Ancient Greek twist
Photographer Petecia Le Fawnhawk is known for creating striking surrealist landscapes using a mix of sculpture and editing techniques. Her new series “Shifting Perspectives” was recently commissioned by Apple and they looks like a “Monument Valley” recreated in real life
Spanish photographer Guillermo Espinosa based in Berlin shares his camera view on architecture, urban life and portraiture
