Illustrator
To Paint That Eternal Music: Interview with Sol Halabi, Argentina
“I enter my paintings as if I am wandering through dreams, recognizing people, places and things, and yet the situations are of such strangeness and intensity that my mind must work to try to interpret and decode what I see. It is in that process where I find the value of my work: not what you see, but what is not. What generates my work internally, and when the painting is done, what it represents to the viewer.”
Read MoreJohn L. Stanizzi, Poet: “Teaching didn’t do anything for my soul. It gave me a soul.”
“Teaching didn’t do anything for my soul. It gave me a soul.”
Read MoreIn Defense of Wonder: Conversation with American illustrator Andy Kehoe
I’m offering a world where anything is possible and there is no doubt that magic does happen because the magic is real. All of the fables and stories you read as a kid are not only the reality, they are an everyday part of life.
Read MoreAron Wiesenfeld, Narrative Painter: Don’t Look Now, But We’re No Longer On Solid Ground
“Fantasy by definition is an escape, and it was a way for me to avoid difficult situations and emotions in my adolescence; however, I don’t think of reading as escapism. I think the activities of daily life are more commonly an escape from difficult or strong emotions. It’s in literature and art that one can usually come into more direct contact with those things. That’s why art is so fascinating. Even fantasy books, ironically.”
Read MoreThe Primordial Dreams of Aron Wiesenfeld
Many artists enter the dream world, but few can so inhabit it as to give us not only its semblance but the meaning of the dream. Wiesenfeld’s genius lies both in the interiority of his figures and in the exteriority of his dreamscapes.
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