Citizen Vintage Winter '18/'19 Zine

CITIZEN VINTAGE VOLUME VI

WINTER ‘18/‘19

ZINE EDITORS

Caroline Mulock Carla Gras

EDITORIAL

Photography: Ariana Molly Styling: Leah-Beth Gold & Lara Kaluza Set Design: Lara Kaluza & Becky Emlaw Makeup: Patrizia Mancini

ARTISTS

Nico Wilting

Malaika Astorga GRAPHIC DESIGN

Carla Gras Caroline Mulock Noa Julien

Meet our January Artist...

Malaika !

How would you define yourself as an artist? How would you define your work?

I’m a Mexican-Canadian visual artist based out of Montreal. I’m an illustrator, animator and the Creative Director of Pink Things Magazine.

I work with a lot of different mediums, especially for the magazine, but drawing has always been my go-to.

What inspires you to create?

Empathy is essential to my work, I want others to be able to feel what I do, as much as I do. I’m inspired by the intersecting aspects of my identity and by being able to contribute to my community.

What do you want people to take from your work?

How do you want to influence other artists?

I want people to realize that there are so many different kinds of representation possible for certain identities and to not hold others to certain standards just because they fit those categories. I want people to know that everything I make is informed by my identity and experiences, but that I don’t have to make work directly depicting these experiences in order to represent them. As a professor of mine once said, you don’t have to write “bus” on a bus. I am considerate of my identities in everything I do, but I don’t want to have to conform to certain styles or topics surrounding them whenever I create new work.

I want to inspire others to speak on their experiences that have been invalidated by others. If you don’t see representation of yourself in visual media, make it yourself!

Even if you don’t think it’s “good enough,” at least there’s something that represents you properly that’s out there now, that someone else can relate to.

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Meet our February Artist...

Nico !

How would you define yourself as an artist? How would you define your work?

This is such a difficult question and I think that’s partly because I feel like my work is constantly growing and changing. I make very different work from what I made in art school. I guess I would define myself as a multidisciplinary visual artist because that leaves me room to change tomorrow.

How did you get into tattooing?

How has this become an extension/different medium of your art?

Well, I started stick n’ poking at the end of 2016 but I never took it that seriously.

I gave a few other stick n’ pokes but it was always really frustrating to me that I couldn’t get good at it, I liked the tattoos I gave myself but anything I gave anyone else never seemed good enough. I decided to teach myself how to tattoo with a machine in the spring, my mental health wasn’t doing so good and I felt very far from my dream of being an artist. It’s unbelievably difficult to be an artist in a capitalist society. I then started reaching out to any tattoo artist that were self taught to gather all the information I could. I’m very grateful to all of them for answering me and I respect them and their work tremendously. It is really difficult and intimidating to start up on your own and tattoo. It’s a lot of work, it’s not any easier than any other kind art.

I think as I have taken on tattooing my work has changed in that tattooing informs my drawings. I’ve discovered also so many talented unique tattoo artists that have inspired me too, that has affected my drawings. It’s cool too, seeing friends pick up on certain things you draw and see their own twist on it. I think now when I draw I constantly consider it as a tattoo. Everything is tattoo flash. You can tattoo anything.

So, I think my drawings and tattoo practice are constantly informing one another as I grow as an artist.

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1. Figures de Style: A Montreal based Design magazine 2. Neisha May ceramic mugs 3. Vintage ceramic vase

1. Hello LA Food stickers 2. Hello LA Celine Dion stickers 3. Blank sunglasses

1. Fluide Beauty nail polish 2. CV Earrings

1. Vintage ceramic vase 2. Metatron Books by Sarah Sutterlin

1. Editorial Magazine 2. Zine by CMCG 3. Vintage ceramic vase

1. Salina Ladha ceramic dish 2. Flambette soy candles 3. Danica Olders 2019 calendars

WINTER ‘18/‘19