Hello new visitors and people who have friended this journal in the past. It has been four years since I have last posted in this journal. My personal life has since moved to another journal; please message me for the username. I have decided to dedicate this journal to the introduction and promotion of art, literature, movies, and people I feel ( Read more... )

Erika Yamashiro is a 28-year-old artist based in Tokyo, Japan whose focus is the act of sleeping--and Yamashiro makes sure to portray sleeping as an act and not a state. Her art views sleep as a transition in which the sleeper is caught somewhere between imagination and reality. Familiar sights become warped--shrunken cats, landscaped heads, ( Read more... )

Speak Cryptic (real name Farizwan Fajari) is a 27-year-old Singaporean subliminal street artist whose work something like quirky cartoon confusion with a fresh hip-hop vibe. The graffiti aspect of Speak Cryptic's work can be seen in his distribution process which involves telephone-pole pasting. In this way, his art is interactive because people ( Read more... )

Maureen Gubia is a funky-creepy, self-taught artist from Ecuador whose spirit-like art is as haunting as it is beautiful. Her art is part accident, part intention, and the combination is usually something that is half art brut and automatism and half strong-valued detailing. Her ability to balance both ends of the spectrum catches the viewers' ( Read more... )

untasted has alerted me to the large portion of Albert's work that is solely archived in her livejournal, no_growing. Albert has rearranged her deviantart account within the past years so I am delighted to find several works I had thought to have been deleted from the Internet forever. Again, you can visit Lauren Albert's website at Plslala.com. Also, the ( Read more... )

Lauren Albert is a young, fresh, odd, folksy, esoteric, fun emerging illustrator who is finishing up her senior year at Moore College of Art and Design. I have been watching her art for a long time--probably close to four years--through her deviantart; and I have found her art consistently thought-provoking and quirky, for lack of a better term. ( Read more... )

Sheng Qi, born in 1965, came to public attention in 1985 as a member of China's "New Art Movement;" he was also involved in the Student's Movement, which ended with the tragic Tiananmen Square Massacre. Disheartened by the Tiananmen Square Massacre, Sheng Qi cut off his little finger and burried it in a flower pot before leaving China for Rome. ( Read more... )