#gothshakira

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Bulgarian illustrator Rozalina Burkova’s boldly graphic works are fresh, ambitious, and urgently contemporary. This London-based artist has her finger firmly on the pulse of every possible “that feeling when” meme moment you might encounter. The excitement—and romance-level devotion—that a new Gucci watch inspires is no exception. Her sardonic drawings for #TFWGucci are the perfect compliment to the one-liners gothshakira and mytherapistsays are known for, which accompany her illustration here. - Text by Tatiana Berg

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A Brief Guide To Meme-Making From The Internet’s Best Artists @KA5SH and @gothshakira

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Young American painter Austin Lee is a double-citizen of both the digital and analogue worlds. His squishy, day-glo designs start their lives as iPad sketches, which then travel through Photoshop, printers, and acrylic to eventually exit as tangible canvases. Reality is re-imported back into bytes for him to further tweak his uncanny neon figures and sly sense of humor, as in his latest works with augmented-reality and 3D printed sculpture. For #TFWGucci, Lee’s candy-colored yuppie character gets a side-eye from queen of deadpan-glam GothShakira. – Text by newterritories (Samantha Culp).

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Meet The Meme Queen Resisting The Male Whiteness Of Meme Culture

Getting a point across is no longer reserved for literary texts, intellectual long-forms or politically-charged rallies. Social movements and cultural critique now come in all forms, including online and off, dank and not. The art of memecraft i... Read more