Volume 2, Issue 1
Visual Art
including work by Alice Makwaia, Hannah Absalom, Zaam Arif, and others
Balloon Boy
Alice Makwaia is a New York City based musician, writer, and artist. Her works explore the curious meetings between the preternatural and the ordinary. Her piece, “Balloon Boy,” is based upon a rather despondent-looking boy she saw in Washington Square Park one afternoon. He seemed to be, metaphorically, carrying something very dark with him. Alice can be contacted at alicemakwaia@gmail.com or @alienn101 on Instagram.
God Doesn’t Whisper He Screams
In a Dry and Weary Land Where There Is No Water
Hannah Absalom’s practice is an investigation into the infiltration of Judeo-Christian dogma, mythology, and iconography upon Western art, and its fundamental influence on the aesthetics of the grotesque and the horror genre, particularly in 20th-century cinema. Absalom’s work can be followed on social media at: hannah-kate-absalom.weeblysite.com/, on Instagram @hkaart, and on YouTube. Contact hannah.absalom.98@gmail.com for more.
I am not alone
Untitled
Zaam Arif is an American-Pakistani contemporary artist residing and working in Houston, Texas. Zaam is currently pursuing his BFA in Design but has been an apprentice of his father, AQ Arif – an award-winning artist, for several years.
Man of Destiny
Scott Finch paints and draws images at the intersections of dream, myth, and material culture. In addition to detailed scratchboard drawings, in recent years Finch has also created a sticker book as art object out of images of on cereal boxes, and a graphic novel about creativity disguised as a creation story, and next year he will release a second graphic novel, The Domesticated Afterlife.
Education for All
Reporter visual artist and photographic, Guilherme Bergamini is Brazilian and graduated in Journalism. For more than two decades, he has developed projects with photography and the various narrative possibilities that art offers. The works of the artist dialogue between memory and social-political criticism. He believes in photography as the aesthetic potential and transforming agent of society. Awarded in national and international competitions, Guilherme Bergamini has participated in collective exhibitions in 31 countries. He can reached at guibergamini@gmail.com, while more work can be found at guilhermebergamini.com or on Instagram @guilhermebergamini.