Walking through the fog

Walking

through the fog

I created this image in a moment of confusion.

I thought that no one ever thinks about how many times an artist or a researcher runs into difficulty, in everyday life to preserve his/her intellectual freedom.

Whoever looks, observes the result of constant work of balance, tenacity and focusing.

And for balance, it is necessary to put one step after another. And this is the process, what allows growth.

Best wishes to everyone a happy holiday with a lots of rest.

 

 

Walking through the fog – digital collage 2023, unpublished

Ex-Libris – A private collection

Ex-Libris

a private collection

Emanuela commissioned me to do a job that, in my imagination, is commissioned from great artists: an ex-libris.

Michele, her partner, works in the cinema and has great passions.

I felt invested with a great responsibility. I put the idea of the “visionary” of the “gaze” at the center of this work. I fully tuned in with Michele because we share the need to watch.
  
These are the sketches, the three images I made and the final stamp.

Internazionale – The town of libraries

The town of libraries

Internazionale

The protagonist talks about the wonderful atmosphere of the Svitávka library.

The article gives a sense of fullness and envelopment that the library and its books give to readers.

The first image represents the library as a sort of  internal place and a state of mind. The second one is the love that young readers have for books, love that the author found in her meetings.

By Markéta Pilátová

As published in Internazionale.

Internazionale – Heima

heima

Internazionale

I was very emotional reading the words of the Icelandic writer Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir.
In his article for Internazionale he described a sensation that I often feel when recently I witness an exceptional show or visit a new place or meet a person who fascinates me. The awareness of not being able to repeat that experience and the certainty of not being able to experience it like the first time.

“But above all, if the language in which I write disappears, the only language I know that uses the same word (heima and heimur) to indicate home and world disappears.”

by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

as published in Internazionale

Internazionale – Fantasy Farming

Fantasy Farming

Internazionale

Bucolic fairytales are a threat to life on Earth.

“Real solutions to our global food crises are neither beautiful nor comforting. […]

The answer is not more fields, which means destroying even more wild ecosystems. It is partly better, more compact, cruelty-free and pollution-free factories. Among the best options, horror of horrors, is a shift from farming multicellular organisms (plants and animals) to farming unicellular creatures (microbes), which allows us to do far more with far less.” 

By George Monbiot

As published in Internazionale.

Internazionale – A Philosophy of Sound

INTERNAZIONALE

A PHILOSOPHY OF SOUND

BEHIND THE SCENE

“Humans are not only made of words.”
Christina Rawls

Music changes my life everyday.
It helped me get through difficulties and helps me get to the truest part of me.

I worked for Internazionale to create two illustrations on this interesting article by professor Christina Rawls.
She writes on topics and cites authors that I have been interested in for many years.

Feeling free to interpretate Raws’ words, I wanted to pay homage to the great pianist Bill Evans.

Evans’ music accompanied my solitary walks and was the perfect comment and perfectly matched with my melancholy.

A small detail also here

WWW – Calendario Digitale

calendario digitale

WWW

Suppose all the information stored on computers everywhere were linked. Suppose I could program my computer to create a space in which everything could be linked to everything.

– Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web

image created for the IG page of the Digital Calendar Community

TIME – Mourning

TIME magazine

Mourning

Working through grief after losing my father.

By Nicole Chung

 
When Katie Kalupson wrote me to commission a work, I was delighted. And I thought Time magazine is one of the places I want to be with my illustrations.
Nicole Chung has written a wonderful piece on going through grief, critiquing this society that leaves us little time, even to deal with our feelings.

The art direction chose the most immediate idea I proposed: the weeping willow.
The face of the protagonist is hidden by the tree and the whole landscape around her is transmuted. When we experience mourning, everything around us takes on the contours of it, it is full of it. 

And Blue and the shades of blue become the palette of this illustrated pain.