Chromatic Watch

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Mateusz Urbanowicz

Tokyo Storefront series

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Joana Neves

You can feel so much in a single day—your morning can begin with you at the brink of being, without even the energy needed to get out of bed; and your evening can end with you as a fierce and fiery incarnation of joy, drawing amazed smiles everywhere you go. This depth and breadth of feeling—of being—is fully explored in Joana Neves’ work, which shows that melancholy and might aren’t mutually exclusive.

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Ori Toor

We’re always trying to process all this information, all these ideas and thoughts and stimuli—it’s too, much; we fail at it constantly. But what if the world presented itself to the eye and brain in ways that were more digestible, more like charts and graphs we read so easily? Ori Toor’s worlds are like that, dense, colorful images feeling like the world’s most beautiful infographics, emotion, form, idea crammed together in shapes that are fun and easy to parse.

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Kamil Burman

Symbols of life and liberty clash with the iconography of death and decay in Kamil Burman’s work—not in a harsh way, but in a way that reflects the balance between creation and destruction that we see in nature.

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Jo Aguilar

What we see so often depends on who we are. Our experiences shape our eyes as much as our genetics do. Jo Aguilar plays with this truth, bending image to allow the viewer to decide exactly what it is they see.

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Yidan Zeng

Creeping forms suggest a broadening of functions in Yidan Zeng’s designs, in which bold impact and the forgiving spirit of nature lend themselves to an airy evolution of type.

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Angie Kang

Life itself is short, so it is no surprise that what is best in life often seems fleeting. Angie Kang suspends those gentle moments in soft, vibrant color, making mementos that melt the callouses from one’s heart.

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Sho Iwai

Style is all about physically manifesting attitude, and for proof of that, should you be the type to shun fashion shows, all you need to do is take a look at Sho Iwai’s work, rich expressions of self dripping out of style.

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Silvia Vanni

There’s a lot about living that we don’t understand. And that lack of knowledge is scary. We try to fill that void with science, but all our equations and hypotheses often aren’t much better than the legends and myths our ancestors cooked up. And so those old stories endure, sometimes in unnerving ways, like when you’re sure you felt something move in the dark. Silvia Vanni makes those frightening things accessible, even cute, in part by connecting them to the universal, reminding us that no matter what you believe, no matter what you experience, you’re doing and feeling things millions of other humans have done and felt.

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Polly Kimura

There’s a wild, hypnogogic feel to Polly Kimura’s work—it feels nocturnal, and consumed by the things that happen in the night; it feels like it honors ritual, and the transformative power of rites; it feels colorful, but in a way that is almost overwhelming; and above all, it feels like being haunted by the haute. 

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Stephanie Birdsong

It doesn’t seem like too much to ask to ask to live a good life. What that means exactly differs from person to person, but living well doesn’t need to be complicated. It’s like in Stephanie Birdsong’s work, where scenes of hestial bliss and the comforts of community are rendered with colorful verve and a hint of the surreal.

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Merritt Cates

We want answers. We want help. Some of us turn to religion; others to the mystic that Merritt Cates so skillfully depicts, where solace and hope can be found in the surreal and unknown, where ancient wisdom is made relevant to modern living, and where—sometimes—that which you seek can be found.

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Alejandro Misteró

The obsessions of our solitudes are known only to us. Alejandro Misteró’s work feels like a confession booth in that way: we enter the private spaces of people’s minds through it, but not obtrusively, not forcefully; instead, in looking, one feels an opening up, shares in secrets being revealed.

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Taner Yilmaz

We come out of our mothers all pure and perfect, and then life scuffs us up. We get wounds that leave scars, wounds that become windows into the selves that lie beneath the skin. Taner Yilmaz focuses in on these openings into inner being, and skillfully reveals all that stirs inside.  

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Biocity Monte

We each reach equilibrium in our own way. For some, meditation does the trick; for others, music; for others nature; for still others, exercise or alcohol or even washing dishes. But when we reach it, when we attain that perfect balance, we are filled with the sort of confidence exemplified by those in Biocity Monte’s work, who seem like strength and grace romantically personified.