Philipp Igumnov aka Woodcum is a collage artist who’s work hits with a biting sense of humor that’s as funny as it is sad. The Moscow based artist creates collages and illustrations that walk the tight-rope of the duality of a sad clown. At once his work is teaming with laugh-out-loud nefarious behavior and a kinda-blue mood. Take a closer look at some of Philipp’s work below.
The Perfect Cherry Blossom is a symbol for flourishing spring and peace, but also the name of one of the most advanced and violent Japanese Bullet Hell Games. A video game made by gamers for gamers from a time before the gaming industry turned into a home entertainment device. Artists Keiichi Tanaami and Oliver Payne explored this game in their latest series of work.
“Everything is born of the need to answer the call of the subconscious.
Open a channel where can emerge, these dream images that come to my mind.
I try to illustrate a confusing message, which will take effect over time.
My work reflects a personal universe that is embraced with Dada and Surrealism kisses.
Bright colors, nature, humanity and the spark that gives life, are the protagonists of this in my work, which is constantly evolving. Always with hands full of spray paint, crop images, draw, paint, on paper, canvas or digital, trying to not have any structure or steps. Try my work is an invitation to travel without movement and feel without touching.” – Ale Sinestro
Hispanic artist David Bru knows a thing or two about long distance relationships. A continuous change of place, a feeling of strangeness along with nostalgia that comes with a long-distance love, injects a kind of rareness into the ordinary. Everyday things, usually perceived as familiar by the couple, suddenly become unsettling. These images from David’s series Disreality illustrates a different range of moods, the majority about fear and a melancholic perception of my surroundings.
Hayley Warnham travels through the times silently ridiculing the ridiculous and arriving at realism upon social realization. She portrays life simplified down to its simplest terms, erasing the excess while speaking universal notions unspoken. From then to now, she satirizes the two-dimensionality of the timeless facade.
I once read that every thing and every one is essentially perfect. We are exactly how we were always meant to be, “perfect” only because our imperfections define us as so. Literally and figuratively, where we stand now is a product of what we have done to bring ourselves here. What is and what will be seen by our eyes and our eyes only exists for our viewing. Why we are attracted to certain things and not others is beyond our control, but falls under the same obvious circumstances.
Paved by the old and trudged upon by the present are the streets that stand for the sake of our heavy footsteps. The new world is what has become of the old; the present, a representation of the evolution, or maybe antithesis, of the past. Either way: what and whomever has at one point walked, breathed, or merely stood upon its grounds still remains… always have and always will.
Justin Blyth has been working in design, motion graphics, print, advertising, art direction and film for the good part of 10 years. It’s no wonder the Los Angeles born, Amsterdam based designer’s style is so strong, even when bouncing from clients as diverse as Nike, Playstation, and Flaunt Magazine, he still manages to maintain his signature aesthetic.
This is ain’t even about the sex. That’s just the first thing you notice. It’s more about fetish and our society’s obsession with knowing everything about everything. Male gaze, female gaze, we all look, even the most prude of us stare. Tom Gallant takes from low-brow source material, vintage pornography and turns those into intricate cutouts. He’s as skilled with precision as a surgeon.
Issue 4 cover artist Greg Gossel is unstoppable. In his latest exhibition at Together Gallery in Portland, OR, the aptly titled Paper, Minneapolis based artist the artist presents 24 new mixed-media works in his now iconic style which includes a bevy of techniques and styles.
