Her life was already heavily influenced by 60s and 70s color schemes, style, and decor so it felt natural to incorporate those themes into her artwork.

WOAO was born, which is this emotion for the world - it is a search to see life through the eyes of a child, trying to explore, to get excited, to have fun, to cry, to jump towards all that we put aside and replaced with so much fear when we grew up.

THE DREAM ISSUE

THE DREAM ISSUE

THE DREAM ISSUE

Since I love bright colors, I decided to go with "I Scream Colour."

Under the sign of Aquarius, Mariana Camberos (1984), was born in Polotitlán de la Ilustración, State of México. This is the place where she grew up and the starting point for the journey that would submerge her in the depths of Latin America, where she collected in her imagery the aesthetics of ancestral cultures, under the atmosphere of tropical blood.

Rime Sbai is a young Moroccan visual artist who, image by image, is developing a new vision: an inclusive universe of freedom and lightness. To achieve this, she immerses herself in Moroccan lore, deconstructs masterpieces from art history, and transgresses portraits of celebrities.

Mamus Esiebo is a self-taught visual artist from Lagos, Nigeria. He studied graphic design at City Unity College. He creates visual art that situates around the simple things in life through digital illustration.

“unearthly - on earth”

My artworks are dreamlike, ritualistic, alternate realities, where all elements are given the same symbiotic value.

I am a self taught artist from Orange County, California, exhibiting my acrylic paintings internationally

I look for interesting faces, for details that I can interpret, for ways to heighten what I see. I’m drawn to a bold, resilient beauty that’s imperfect and asymmetrical, the rare magnetism of men and women who are truly comfortable in their skin.

Xaviera Altena is a Rotterdam-born illustrator currently living and working in the city. Her interests include 90’s pop culture and being an amateur chef, but above all she has a strong passion to address social challenges.

His artistic practice integrates music and image making with his studies of Kabbalah, alchemy & shamanism. His group Malaikat dan Singa uses the tropes of diverse shamanic trance musics within a rock and roll performance context.

Just like I left Beirut, I left her one morning. While still longing for her. I had my first kiss in Beirut. She picked me up, in her dad’s light blue mercedes. The car had a phalangist cross glued to its front window. She was my math tutor. She was my first love.

Nick Hornby (b. 1980) is a British artist living and working in London. Hornby studied at Slade School of Art and Chelsea College of Art.

Rebecca Brodskis' work is a form of exploration through painting of the relationship between the being and matter and the impact of the social on the individual. Captivated by moments of life that surround her, by discussions, images or characters, Rebecca questions those fleeting moments of everyday life that we do not remember, but that shape existence.

Female figures with long necks, eyes shut and hair flung in the air. Elongated couples leaning on each other, as if offering a cradle, trying to hold a heart, a small sparrow, a symbol.

Open to the viewer's interpretation, the series is a study in texture, color and contrast, the organic application with non-traditional painting tools resulting in fluid movement and rich detail.

I feel the grief of the Heavens in my bones... The angels are mourning the loss of a city that once was but now that city has lost its light. Two weeks after this loss, I’m coming out of my silence with an excruciating pain in my heart.

When there is thirst for hope, light has no choice but to shine.

When I First came across the art of Kensuke Koike, I was submerged by joy and amazement. This Japanese collage artist, who now lives in Europe, is able to play with images in a way that no other would imagine. The very dynamic part opens up in short videos he posts frequently on Instagram. Once you have discovered one of those videos and grasped the concept of making the viewer go through the artistic process, you cannot help but keep on watching others, excitingly waiting for the #nal climax, which very much resembles an artistic joke pun.

My name is Fahad Al Hadi, I am an Omani National living and working in Dubai, United Arab Emirates I am a self-taught, digital conceptual artist. I channel my frustrations, desires and thoughts through the medium of digital art. ​Today, my ever-growing portfolio contains a catalogue of works influenced by contemporary culture, personal history and social issues driven by the incredible vivid nature of my dreams.

"The world we live in now is quite peculiar. We are at war with a dangerous enemy that we cannot control nor see. As ordinary citizens, we cannot see that enemy. We mainly have to deal with the consequences: the many dead and sick, the social life that comes to a halt, the empty streets, the mouth masks. The only way we can control this virus is to stay inside, 'says Moereels.

I think about Sunday morning cartoons and cereal boxes as examples of available nostalgic moments for me to arrange. The work acts as a safe space for me and everyone who views it to exist in. The figures are not gendered. The figures are not sexualized. The absence of genitalia levels these cartoon figures in a space without desire and gaze.

Gabriello De Surr is a multimedia fashion artist with a strong passion for fashion illustration, drawing, and photography. He obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of South Florida and currently works and resides in Florida. Many of his works are inspired by the fashion shows and the aesthetic of the collections.

doodle poet

My birth place is Yakhroma town, in the vicinity of Moscow. It is situated on high hills, from where broad Bruegelian vistas are open.

Alex Ahmad Habli is an American Lebanese selftaught artist who specializes in ink art. He is an 80’s kid born in El Khubar, KSA and lived between Sidon, South of Lebanon and Los Angeles, USA.

ghost painter

Melissa McCracken was born and raised in Kansas City. Growing in a musical environment, she has always seen colors in music. Actually, Melissa could see colors in letters, sounds and place the days of the weeks in certain spots around her body.

collage artist

I start by finding a “base” image, and then I sort of build around it. Sometimes I have a concrete idea of what I want to do, and sometimes I leave the images to t together by themselves

The idea for this project was conceived in an act of friendship between the two artists.

A New York City-based artist with a lot of passion. As far as his influences go, childhood has had a deep effect on Eddy’s art.