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CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF 1

The images from Conversations with Myself, are multi-layered visual dialogues that intimately explore Jo Ann Chaus’s relationships, between and within herself, others and the world.

Inspired by a collection of found and inherited garments and objects, varied locations and good light, she conjures up cinematic tableaus that draw on memory and cultural iconography using herself as the main subject and performs what appears to be a moment captured in time, living in both the present and the past simultaneously.

The collection, a selection from a larger body of work, represent the sense of a self she explores and the bridge she has been constructing between the past and the present, personally and collectively, as she searched to understand her current state of existence as influenced by her family, heritage, society, personal desires and motivations, challenges, hurdles and relationships she recognizes and value, as she accessed many deep, authentic, raw places buried within.

These images instigate if and to what degree the terrain has shifted, as we collectively consider each scenario from the perspective of ourselves, male and female, our mothers, and our daughters

JO ANN CHAUS

Jo Ann is a visual artist based in the New York metropolitan area who explores the complexity of her identity as a woman, wife, mother and independent individual. She drew from her personal history, cultural mores, and traditional constructs and influenced by her background in fashion, interest in psychology, and the nature of human relationships. She is an alumnus of ICP, has self-published a monograph, Sweetie & Hansom, based on her family of origin, and is completing Conversations with Myself, which explores her identity and her relationship with herself.

In 2016 Jo Ann self-published “Sweetie & Hansom”, a 60 image book with the original text, about her parents, siblings and husband. She continues to create images for “Conversations with Myself”, her work of self-portraiture that uses light, location, and a curated collection of props and garments to build a bridge between the present and the past in this 75+ body of work referencing women, family and identity.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and she holds special recognitions and awards:  Critical Mass 200, 2019, PDN Emerging Photographer FALL 2019 Winner, Winner 13th Pollux Awards non-professional category, Klompching 2019 Fresh! Finalist, Candela Unbound8! Juried exhibition, 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards Honorable Mention, Juror’s Choice South East Center for Photography Portrait Exhibition 2019, Permanent collection at the Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, AZ, Qualities of Light Exhibition.

www.joannchaus.com

https://www.instagram.com/joannchaus

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SINGLE STROKE

The Art of Single Line

The Croatian artist Paolo Ceric is famous for his animated GIFs, experiments with illustration without forgetting the graphic and geometric study of the image.

A single spiral line draws enveloped faces and bodies. The effect works in a similar way to a printing process. The line spacing is more significant in the bright areas, while the lines are closer in the dark spaces.

Paolo Ceric is an artist and a programmer from Zagreb. His work mainly consists of generative art, but he has done some motion graphics work with various clients such as Sigur Rós, Panda Bear and Stella McCartney.

By day, he is working as a research engineer at Microblink, developing deep learning models. For the rest of his time, he works on his art.

The artist participated in various exhibitions.

https://patakk.com

https://www.instagram.com/patakk/

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Land of Gods IAMISIGO SS21 FASHION FILM

“Land of gods”, Inspired by Yoruba and Edo Mythology, are both complex but so similar. This collection continues the scope into examining and understanding us beyond being human beings through the idea of divinity. Human creates and destroy. Are we Gods or descendants of Gods which we can study in everyday life? The spirit of human individuality is visual, verbal and musical rather than written. Like a spirit, it can’t stay still; it’s constantly in motion.

Three fundamental colours used in this collection, red identifies blood, fire, provocation, sacrifice and violence, black demonstrates shame and white, which signifies joy and purity; these are the colours of the vital spiritual energy.  This collection's patterns are conveyed, linking our craft experiences to the meaning of proper dressmaking as a gesture of prayer, a vehicle of communication with the spirit world.

Pieces were made in infinite layered sheer recycled polyester ruffles as a sign of abundance and mastery in the spirit world. They are highlighting important symbols in life, which is translating into many ways, such as the transmission of messages to and from the spirit world and the division of earthly and spiritual realms.

These pieces are terrains of soul, never finished, a language for the body beyond conscious understanding, like a mnemonic device that reminds us. The details of the garments created with artisans in Lagos, Osun, Edo and Kano states in Nigeria.

IAMISIGO collaborated with Nigerian shoe designer, Kkerele to create the shoe collection made from patent cow leather,

Creative Direction: Bubu Ogisi

Photography: Chris Okoigun

Model: Adejoke Adesope

https://iamisigo.squarespace.com

https://www.instagram.com/iamisigo/?hl=it

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IAMISIGO SS21 LAND OF GODS

“Land of gods”, Inspired by Yoruba and Edo Mythology, are both complex but so similar. This collection continues the scope into examining and understanding us beyond being human beings through the idea of divinity. Human creates and destroy. Are we Gods or descendants of Gods which we can study in everyday life? The spirit of human individuality is visual, verbal and musical rather than written. Like a spirit, it can’t stay still; it’s constantly in motion.

Three fundamental colours used in this collection, red identifies blood, fire, provocation, sacrifice and violence, black demonstrates shame and white, which signifies joy and purity; these are the colours of the vital spiritual energy.  This collection's patterns are conveyed, linking our craft experiences to the meaning of proper dressmaking as a gesture of prayer, a vehicle of communication with the spirit world.

Pieces were made in infinite layered sheer recycled polyester ruffles as a sign of abundance and mastery in the spirit world. They are highlighting important symbols in life, which is translating into many ways, such as the transmission of messages to and from the spirit world and the division of earthly and spiritual realms.

These pieces are terrains of soul, never finished, a language for the body beyond conscious understanding, like a mnemonic device that reminds us. The details of the garments created with artisans in Lagos, Osun, Edo and Kano states in Nigeria.

IAMISIGO collaborated with Nigerian shoe designer, Kkerele to create the shoe collection made from patent cow leather,

Creative Direction: Bubu Ogisi

Photography: Chris Okoigun

Model: Adejoke Adesope

IAMISIGO

Sustainable fashion brand I.AM.ISIGO, based between Nigeria, Ghana, and France, seeks to create a striking awareness of how African culture can fuse with a bold yet minimal design aesthetic. A versatile and fashion-forward DNA achieved through the use of visually textured fabrics incline silhouettes. Designer Bubu Ogisi seeks to create a striking awareness of how African culture can be combined with a bold yet minimalist design aesthetic.

The brand established in 2009 where is primarily based in Ghana and Nigeria.

https://iamisigo.squarespace.com

https://www.instagram.com/iamisigo/?hl=it

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I, Unfolded

Phoebe Guo’s unique project I, Unfolded develops the ideas of identity and personality as it extends and unfolds through all its nuances.

Phoebe Guo is a London- based fashion photographer and filmmaker who takes her master degree in fashion photography at London College of Fashion. She has more than ten years of experience in photography, especially in fashion, portrait and still-life. She has invited and worked with many brands during Paris fashion week, Haute Couture Fashion Week and London Fashion Week, and featured in Vogue UK, GQ British edition.

phoebeguo.net

instagram.com/phoebe.gq/

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Elari’s Wake for Vogue Italia

Pastel tones of earthy colors. Ripples on the fluidity of the pure surface embodied in an ethereal water series…

Emma Tempest’s  continuation of the water series with the model Vivien Solari shot exclusively for Vogue Italia.

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THE MINIMAL MELANCHOLIA

Metaphoric souls beyond the lens

Gabriel Isak’s art entails surreal and melancholic scenes where he invites the viewer to interact with the inner world of solitary figures that symbolize our own unconscious states. He uses photography as a medium to draw and paint surreal images, minimal and graphic in its aesthetic, rich in symbolism and emotion, focusing on themes inspired by human psychology, dreams and romanticism, as well as his own experiences, especially the years he went through depression. Isak’s work is a serene and melancholic meditation that stills the chaos of life and transforms into an introspective journey that questions the depths of existence. The objective of Gabriel Isak’s art is to shine a light on the experiences of being and the states of mind those brings along. His subjects are anonymous with the slightest glimmerings of consciousness, imprisoned in monochromatic settings, so the viewer can envision oneself as the subject, reflecting back on one’s own experiences and journey in life.

Swedish photographer creates images full of enigmatic symbolism and immersed in an enchanted environment with dark tones. His surreal images characterized by darkness and melancholic atmospheres. The cold tones of the water and the suggestion of minimalism symbolize his dark romanticism. The solitary figures populate a desolate nature between shades of grey and ice. The faces hidden by the hair, by thin curtains, shy and mysterious, tell of vulnerable moments.He creates his own imaginative visuals on moments of intimacy that built on the misunderstanding.

https://www.gabrielisak.com

https://www.instagram.com/gabriel_isak

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REVIVED EMOTIONS

The colors that evoke past memories

California-based artist Heather Day makes abstract paintings comprised of scraped, smeared, and flooded pools of pigment. The compulsive energy of her work oscillates between rehearsed abandon and careful restraint. Her encompassing murals, large canvases, and intimate drawings study the mechanisms of sensory perception — mining what happens when the body interprets a sound as a texture, or a scent as a color.

Mixing warm and cold colors within layers allow the viewer to get into an inexperienced moment. She works on many paintings at the same time, ranging from large-scale canvases to small paper drawings. Beside her primary tool which is imagination, she works with her thoughts, moods, and phases through paint, pastels, charcoal, spray paint, and graphite.

When you look at Day’s art, you can easily notice a bouquet of colors and shapes pieced together, but when you have a closer look and you can realize allow the greatness in composition, forms, stroke, and all line serves a purpose, and it all falls together effortlessly.

https://heatherday.com

https://www.instagram.com/heatherday

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FLOWING WATER, STANDING TIME

Robotic clothing reacting to the chromatic spectrum

Imagine robotic dresses react to their surroundings. Ying Gao, designed robotic dresses integrating fibrous panels that consist of out of silicone, glass and organza, and added electronic devices to create every-changing dynamic pieces that react to its surrounding chromatic spectrum.

The collection was inspired by neurologist Oliver Sacks’ novel, The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, in which he relates the story of Jimmie G, a 49-year-old former sailor convinced of being aged 19 since having left the Navy.

Shocked by his own reflection when Sacks hands him a mirror, Jimmie reverts to his 19-year-old self as soon as his gaze leaves the reflective surface. Having lost any sense of temporal continuity, Jimmie lives as a prisoner to this single, perpetual moment, oscillating between a presence to the world and a presence to self.

The garments capture the core of movement and stability over time with using color and light sensors, as well as tiny cameras and collect information about their environment. This data activates a series of magnets which attached with silicone for to move the fabric. The collection shows natural progression of her behavioral studies in autonomous garments.

http://yinggao.ca

https://www.instagram.com/livingpod

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FLOWING WATER, STANDING TIME

Robotic clothing reacting to the chromatic spectrum by Ying Gao

silicone, glass, PVDF, electronic devices

2019

This project was inspired by neurologist Oliver Sacks’ novel, The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, in which he relates the story of Jimmie G, a 49-year-old former sailor convinced of being aged 19 since having left the Navy.

Shocked by his own reflection when Sacks hands him a mirror, Jimmie reverts to his 19-year-old self as soon as his gaze leaves the reflective surface. Having lost any sense of temporal continuity, Jimmie lives as a prisoner to this single, perpetual moment, oscillating between a presence to the world and a presence to self.

Much like Jimmie G, the garments evolve between two states and display perpetual metamorphosis as they react to the chromatic spectrum. This traveling between opposite states – from immobility to movement – does not operate as a dichotomy. Upon the field of time, which injects energy into the very core of inertia, fluctuates the intensity animating each garment in its unique way. These two states are mere dropping-off points among an infinite array of possibilities.

In order to echo this varying mobility, the garments are also capable of chromatic movement. Capable of recognizing the colors in their immediate surroundings, they are at once liquid and chameleon-like, adapting to the slow rhythm of their ever-changing environment. A mirror effect is at play: the garments are reacting to what they see. Much like Oliver Sacks’ patient, they alternate between what they are, and what they can potentially become – all the while embodying the inherent complexity of all things.

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HYPER-REALISTIC GLASS BAGS

Washington-based artist Dylan Martinez created stunning glass sculptures. His illusory series ‘H2O/SiO2’ combined several glassblowing and sculpting techniques to form hyper-realistic glass bags. Martinez mainly focused on avant-garde approaches that change the material thoroughly. His conceptual approach to art creates a moment that glosses over the viewer’s interpretation of reality and illusion. His curiosity in this subject matter of optical perception is driven by the fact that he was born red-green color blind. However, being a red-green color blind born provided Martinez with an alternative way of seeing and encourages him to make mesmerizing glass sculptures.

www.dylanmartinezglass.com

www.instagram.com/_dylanmartinez

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IN SILENCE

Felix Dolah is an artist based in Mainz, Germany who works with charcoal, creating dream like ghostly drawings that play with simple figures and negative space in minimalist way. The artist’s style consist of exploring human figures in an extraordinary forms. He illustrates elongated limbs and slightly off-kilter silhouettes of these maybe-human figures place them tightly on paper. Working with sharp contrast strengthen his imagination in two dimensional surface. Various disciplines of art inspired him to experiment on different materials to see how he feels. At the end he came up with charcoal and water. These elements matched cohesively with Dolah’s own unique style. Now charcoal and water play important role to express his inner world with all its light and darkness to emphasize his art.

https://www.instagram.com/felixdolah

https://nadiaarnold.com/?page=1&rb_vendor=Felix+Dolah

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THE ETERNAL SUMMERTIME

Precious stones may stand forever, but KEEF PALAS has enthusiasm in an entirely different direction. Claire O’Keefe and Eugenia Oliva who are the founders of Keef Palas, Claire O’Keefe and Eugenia Oliva, features jewellery designed to decay. Both creative ladies have spent many years in fashion industry. Eugenia Oliva, who is responsible for jewellery line, was in sales and marketing at Elie Saab. On the other hand, Claire O’Keefe has been a freelance costume designer and photographer. In ‘Eternal’, they brilliantly transferred organic items into wearable art. Each jewellery piece has created by objects from the ocean. The collection is created from treasure that they found on the Mediterranean coast. They used pebbles, shells, mussels, razor clams, and cuttlefish bones to create extraordinary jewellery pieces. Besides the jewellery items, they designed eyewear products along with mesh dresses crafted of clamshells, earrings of a pearlescent shell, glasses made of stone. In the collection they aimed to highlight something to inspire people, or at least make them think about their shopping choices. If the fashion consumer doesn’t take a stand, then nothing will change.

https://keefpalas.bigcartel.com

www.instagram.com/keefpalas

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The Eternal Summertime - KEEF PALAS SS COLLECTION

'The Eternal Summertime' a film for Keef Palas.

Jennifer Bucovineau, Lydia Garcia, Ricc Dominguez, Max Torres and Edu Gisbert

Written and directed by Miquel Díaz Pont Produced by O Executive producer Zico Judge Production manager Nitus Rubies Director of photography Oriol Barcelona Art director Laura Veciana Editor Cherrycola

Costume designer Claire O'Keefe Original music Nil Ciuró 1st AD Gemma Sellarés Title credits Affaire Postproduction Yukio Montilla

Voice over artist Stephen Lynn Make up artist Natalia Ferreiros Casting Edu Perez Colorist Xavi Santolaya Sound mix Cora Delgado

Production coordinator Afrika Dominguez Production assistant Pau Relats Production assistant Quiri Quirant Production assistant Carolina Rodriguez Production assistant Maria Garcia

Art assistant Marti Cortes Bullich Set dresser Glendis Lopez Labrador Stan by props Nil Boada Ferrer Stan by props Alba Urgell Poza

Steady cam Alberto Ojeda Steady cam assistant Paula Capdevila Focus puller Toni Vidal & Alicia Galiña A.C. / Clapper loader Raul Mulas & Camila Pinedo Loader Julia Jané

Gaffer Carles Fernández Gali Best boy Meritxell Mesa Sparks Albert Cantallops & Antoine Sonnery

Styling assistant Sara Clemente Styling assitant Agustín Power

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A CREATIVE JOURNEY TO FEMALE SENSUALITY

“I wanted to create an online platform that grabs people’s attention but also gives them something in return.” - Marius Sperlich

Imagine a photographer who wants to tell a story with one image. Marius Sperlich, a photographer, born in Reinbek, Germany, has built a platform emphasizing current issues on the social media platform. He is demonstrating his artistic journey with sensual close-ups, on the NSFW’s boundary, on the female body, particularly on the face and lips. He uses the human figure as a canvas to style tiny props that tell a larger story. His photographs entirely centred on a small portion of the female’s face, white teeth, wet tongues, fleshy lips which create great sensual shots. Besides social media facts and issues like censorship and validation, Marius Sperlich wanted to address current global problems like climate change, mental health and more.

www.instagram.com/mariussperlich

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Reinvention of the Soul 

‘Reinvention of the Soul’ photographed by Josh Faux and edited by Lola Dupre. With the portraits of Faux, the series of artworks formed with the new approach to collage technique by Dupre. The unique visual intention of Dupre created completely new perspectives and stories of each individual photographs. Unproportioned and unreal but aesthetic looking collages of faces mesmerizing the viewers. By cropping, rearranging and joining the images, Dupre reshapes the pictures to create a new meaning to the original image. She plays with various types of expressions by moving the facial features around to create creepy and extraordinary looking person. The artworks carry the essence of cubic depictions. With the help of simple tools, she makes the portraits as realistic as possible by taking the original photo and displacing the area of the eye.

Photographer: Josh Faux  Collage Illustration: Lola Dupre  Creative direction and Model: Sade English  Mua: Luke Harris  Assistant: Ebere Anosike  Garments: Sade English Skin Collection  Photo retouching: Alina Kovban 

www.loladupre.com  www.joshfaux.com

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Temple Children Presents ‘Nothing is Separate: A Collaboration with Nature’ by Ellen Rutt, Film by Emad Rashidi 

‘Nothing Is Separate: A Collaboration with Nature,’ is an experimental, traveling installation created by mixed-media artist Ellen Rutt (@EllenRutt) as part of Temple Children’s Winter 2017 artist residency in Hilo, Hawai‘i. By creating intuitive compositions of painted, repurposed wood shapes and costumes at several of the island’s majestic, distinct, and isolated terrains, Ellen explores the complex relationship humans have with the natural and built environments. 

Film by @EmadRashidi // Music by @Weval.  Mahalo to Novo Painting, Moon and Turtle, Takamine Construction, and everyone behind the scenes who helped make this possible.

www.ellenrutt.com  www.emadrashidi.com