Art Sponge

It seems Cedric Jean Pierre Pradel and I share a fascination with masks, and the potentially transformative appearance they can give to someone, sometimes with only the slightest of elements.

“I find it fascinating how someone can literally or figuratively put on a mask, be able to express themselves and therefore to be able to reveal so much more. Therefore it has this melancholic idea to it that I feel very attracted to. This is also something that I practice through Jean Poodle. He is my escape at times, times when all I want to do is celebrate life and all the fun things that it has to offer“!

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Pic of The Day:

Brittany Markert

Got a nice tip from Berlin-based cultural-events organizer, blogger and friend Jasmin Falk who got to meet and see artist Awer creating some of his mind-bending wall pieces. “From walls to paper my style speaks about natural life VS robot life, with a contemporary world influence, all is made with a psychedelic flavour just for trick your mind! :)”

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pic of the day:

Jonas Loiske

Collaboration: Michael Olivo, Jesse Balmer & Niv Bavarsky

Michael Olivo has a versatile, multi-layered and certainly psychedelic style of comic illustration:

“Sometimes you look at someone and just see legs, or a head, or hands, and that moment of narrowness is more interesting to me than “the whole picture”. Memory tends to recall an ideal form, like an arm in a classical pose or in a diagrammatic way, instead of that awkward way an arm can be when viewed straight on. I would say there’s excess in that awkwardness. Plus, if you can freeze a moment why freeze a mundane one. Big legs, I enjoy biking and Frisbee, so I’ve got relatively big legs compared to my boyish upper body, throw in some Crumb, and some Japanese woodblock prints, and you got some big legs. I also love to watch football, so I’m see a lot of dudes at the optimal fitness level. As far as segmentation of the body goes, I can see why that would be viewed as decapitation, but I view it more so as integration. Just like if I cut my arm off and leave it in the dirt, my arm would achieve full integration through decomposition and animal digestion, and that would be nice.”

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Abstract, enigmatic and visually disconcerting collages by Ryan De La Hoz:

“I am interested in Halloween. The basis of it is similar to the Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico. The idea is that you are celebrating the gift of life from the dead. People go wild because they are happy to be alive. My Dad died in 2005 and ever since I have been analyzing the duality of life and death – love and loss – joy and misery. I use the skeleton glove to signify the remains of a person or society that is no longer. I have an affinity for the Reaper because my last name de la Hoz means “of the sickle,” and when I was little I attributed a sickle to the Grim Reaper’s scythe.”

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