Innovated Magazine: Issue Five by Innovated Magazine

Visual Art Publication May/June 2011

Yasin Hasanian

Arif Bahtiar

Also in this issue...

Eulalie Varenne

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Success & Inspiration Innovated Magazine is proud to have become such a reliable source to many designers around the world. We look forward to more growth and success with each issue we publish. We have to say that we are proud to be launching our fifth issue of Innovated Magazine. We know that many of you have never heard of us; how could you...We are new to the scene. We wanted to take a moment and introduce ourselves and maybe explain a few things about who we are and what our goal is. You see it’s very simple...We are here to enhance the art world. Everyone at Innovated Magazine is devoted to the arts, it’s safe to say we have an obsession for design, music, and anything and everything beautiful and inspiring. That is what made us come together and start this publication. Innovated Magazine is dedicated to finding Up & Coming talent from around the world and giving them a chance to display their work to all of our

readers. This is an opportunity for these amazing artists to tell their stories and experiences and inspire others with their words and amazing artwork. We like to think of ourselves as an “artistic showcase of talent”. We expect these artists to use our services to the fullest and hopefully gain the recognition and respect they and their work deserve. We have put a lot into our product and the artists involved have been more than amazing to work with, so we would like to take a minute and thank everyone who was involved in each issue and wish them much success in their artistic futures. So, here we are, trying to make an impression in the art world. We hope that all of our readers enjoy all of the work we have put together and we look forward to working with some of you in our future.

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Amateur Artist: Photography Eena Macaspac

All dimensions of art

My artistic transition As a child I would sit for hours going through to picture books, children magazines and encyclopedias books.

Francesca Morrison: Shooting WIld

All riders understand that there is something very special about the relationship between horse and rider...

I was born and grow up in West Java Island. Since I was a kid I always claim my self as a world citizen who was born in Indonesia.

Nani Dsgnani:

a.k.a Tanoshiboy

I was about 5 years old and I remember we were out to dinner. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been given a packet of those little crayons...

To be in this business, work, life, or whatever you label it, is really hard; you need to compete to a lot of people...

Arif Bahtiar:

Dennis Salvatier:

Prakash Bal Joshi:

Reflections on transient life Using oil on canvas, Joshiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s powerful brush strokes bring alive through abstract forms the subtle realities that lie behind the outer...

16 6 Eulalie Varenne:

Capturing the moment

As many, I learned photography by myself. I started playing with my digital camera while bored.

Yasin Hasanian:

Crawling in my mind

In my opinion to be a good artist one needs to obey at least three criterias. First and foremost is accepting criticism with open arms

Josefine Jรถnsson: Beatiful simplicity

By the beginning of 2006 I tried to express myself through photography. I took a lot of self-portraits and photos with themes...

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Eena Macaspac

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;To be in this business, work, life, or whatever you label it, is really hard; you need to compete to a lot of people to let your name shine than any other else. But for me it is really not like that, because even though there are a lot of competitors around, still they are the one that will/may help you.â&#x20AC;?

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ena Macaspac is a 15 year old “Amateur Artist” from the Philippines. As a young girl growing up the side of arts really played a big role in our family and in my life! I discovered my art in myself by simply doodling everything in some pieces of paper to express my feelings, later on as I discover myself I found my niche in arts and I’m happy to say that it is photography. Some say it is so easy to do, unlike other sectors of arts ‘cause you will just click your shutter button and everything is already there, but I tell you it is not as simple as you think, because it is about creating life! A life that cannot be changed and presented to create feelings and a lot of emotions to make a sequence and patterns of life through unusual frames.

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Eena Macaspac

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In 3 years of living a photographic life, I already received a lot of comments, judgments, and of course I already met a lot of people that some of them served as my inspirations. Well before any photographers’ names are named, I really want to say that my number 1 inspirations are my parents! My parents who really struggled for us to have this good life, and they are also the ones who helped me to be strong at all times. Now, of course as I had said there are also other people who really inspired me through their experiences and of course their life. To name with from my country the first is Thea de Leon, a girl who also started this business at a young age, but yes age does not matter! Next are the duo Ryan Vergara and Garovs Garrovillo, mainly known as “Everywhere We Shoot”, I learned that being different from the others are better, and mostly “Love first before money.” Then from the other country 2 of my favorites are Nigel Barker and Yervant, and from them I learned that fashion can be incorporated in different ways in art. To be in this business, work, life, or whatever you label it, is really hard; you need to compete to a lot of people to let your name shine than any other else. But for me it is really not like that, because even though there are a lot of competitors around, still they are the one that will/may help you. You really need to love people in this industry because they build you as you grow. Maybe for now I am still building up my

name and I am still young, yet I already received a lot of hate notes, but I tell you, you need to love and embrace them and do not let them get into your way! Instead make them as a part of yourself because they are there helping you to grow more. As of now I know there are a lot of opportunities for me to look forward to, but before anything else I am still in the state of myself where I discover my own style in photography. There are a lot of “maybes”, so far I really see my art will go as far as it can be not just for myself, but for a lot of people who will be needing my help, not just as a photographer, but also as a friend that can share a lot of stuff. And in all helping is the real art of every artist!

EENA MACASPAC Photography Work Displayed: For more information regarding the work shown in this article, please contact the artist directly. Contact Details: • http://itseenainwonderland.deviantart.com/ • http://eenainwonderland.tumblr.com/ • eena.macaspac@gmail.com

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was born and grow up in West Java Island. Since I was a kid I always claim my self as a world citizen who was born in Indonesia.â&#x20AC;?

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Arif Bahtiar | Fine Art & Painting

All dimensions of art.

believe that everybody were learned to draw first before they learn to write. So do I. I start like drawing and painting since I was a child. When I was in primary school, I always get highest point in visual art. Drawing, painting, sculpture etc, Haha.. and get the worst point in sport and math. Suddenly I know what I want to be. I never get a formal education in art. I discovered, observed, explored and practiced it by my self. I Read the art history books, Easthetic theory books, learning from all maestro art works and practice it. Sometime with my artist friends. Yes I like to collect painting catalogue and it’s review too. I like Da Vinci, Dali, Goya, Picasso, Dino Valls, Peter Gric, Donato Giancola, Carravaggio etc. And I music too, maybe my painting influence by Chopin, Bach, the doors, Pink Floyd, Enigma, Bara Basicova etc. I like literature also like Dante, William Blake, Shakespeare, Poe etc. Maybe all of it’s influenced my works of art..So that’s how I learn. The rest just intuition... I was born and grow up in West Java Island. Since I was a kid I always claim my self as a world citizen who was born in Indonesia. In year of 2000 I moved to Bandung to study in Literature Faculty.I take my own ancient fathers Literature major. Ancient Sundanesse literature. I read old scrolls and manuscript about ancient Literature which is very close to myth, prophecy, magic and mistery. It’s very interesting for me. Don’t you want to know the history about how the Atlantis continent get sinked?...or don’t you want to know the story of a son can fall in love to his own mother because she is ageless and has eternal beauty like Oedipus? isn’t it sureal?

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Personally I think, my works of art is about that’s all. I want to paint the ancientness and future, and maybe the civilization after future. About the faith and spiritualism. About Intelegency of imagination with it’s dimension. Actually I never think about the main stream when I paint. I just paint it by my own thought and feeling. Just let it flow. would it be Realism, Impressionism, cubism or surrealism etc.. I never force my self to become imprisoned character or style. Sometime, not all the imaginary thing you could describe with one method.Sometime it’s need something from outside and strange. And we must adopt it for it’s purpose. Even all of it’s will never be perfect. Off course.. the perfect idea is only in our mind. Because. maybe color

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is unlimited.but our eyes ability is limited, my painting skill is limited... even my own age is limited too. Personally I think, Inspiration is not coming from outside. It’s appear from our innerself. It’s about the moment, connectivity and everything in it in the right spot. There’s not inspiring thing if our heart and mind closed away. Inspiration is like love. We can’t choose it because we are out of ability. Inspiration choose us to act. To make it out from our mind by painting until every body can see and chase something from it. Exhibit it, And Sell it if they like it. That’s the goal. In late of 2007 I moved to Bali. It’s a beautiful island. Peoples call it’s the island of the gods. My purpose move here is to digging out my painting skill. Learn from senior artists. I often exhibit my works in gallery, hotel and restaurant here and sell it. Last time I work as a Creative director in an American advertising company. But at the moment I retired because I feel that I need to give my attention more to painting. Now I’ am working at home as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. I also paint for commission project like mural, graffitti, potrait painting, and painting reproduction. I have purpose in every art works. Sometime I used symbol and sometime just motive or abstract. But I always fill something in it. Feeling, ambience, atmosphere, situation... anything. Some of works I purpose as satire and some with symbol or others way. But the main purpose I want to tell is about the question..it’s just like philosophy... it’s will never end.

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Nani Dsgnani | Fine Art & Illustration

“As a child I would sit for hours going through to picture books, children magazines and encyclopedias books. Moreover, I spent my teenager hood with draw so many strange characters, wrote short stories and poetries.”

was born in 1986, Indonesia. I grew up in the small island of Kotabaru. My house has a front yard full of flower and colours, bird and cat I remembered playing there for hours and hours during my childhood years. As a child I would sit for hours going through to picture books, children magazines and encyclopedias books. Moreover, I spent my teenager hood with draw so many strange characters, wrote short stories and poetries. I moved to Melbourne, Australia in 2008 to continue my studied of Graphic Design and completed Master of Design (Communication) at Swinburne University of Technology. I’ve been freelancing since my junior year of college through my online website www.designani.net. My design goes out into various media and is seen by people in many different ways. I have produce artworks for print design, fashion/editorial illustration, street art, craft handmade, pattern textiles, and mural. I’m also passionate about photography and fashion. I was introduce to the world of art when I was seventeen years old, when a friend of mine asked me to participate in an art exhibition in Surabaya, Indonesia. I’ve been joined a lot of group exhibition since then and I was encouraged to draw and paint instead of spent my time in front of computer. Scott Adams (1996) once said, “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, art is knowing which ones to keep”. This particular statement inspired me to make the transition from illustration to the world of Fine Arts. The discovery of a discipline that allows individuals to express emotions in a visual form free from any commercial restrictions such as clients and their needs provides artists

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with a range of opportunities that can only be found in an artistic environment. The liberty to manifest a self-centred view of the world has completely changed my creative process. As an artist I want to convey a physical, emotional and spiritual message in a single painting that can reach the audience mind. Finally last year, I finished my MFA at RMIT University and will have my first solo exhibition in Melbourne by the end of this year. As an artist, I want to present a unique, whimsy, and intriguing world, that gives viewers a sense of wonder. My work will combine different tales and imaginary visions into a single image story building a storyline in every artwork. It also aims to create a delightful world of ambiguity that is related to everyday routines and fantasies. Each story line is based on personal childhood memories, popular culture and notions of femininity to communicate feelings of innocence, naivety, loss and sorrow. Narrative within the paintings and drawings will be enriched by stories out of history, past art, literature, fables, fairy tales, pop surrealism or any other elements that might inspire me. My ability to fantasize about other worlds where everything was possible began in my childhood. As a young girl, I used to play a lot with the animals inside my house because my parents and siblings were always too busy during the day to play with me. This situation allowed me to daydream and create amazing and fun stories. Today, this childhood memories have become a part of my artwork and I intend to embrace the challenge of representing imaginative and selfconscious in my practice. The subject matter of my work is focused on female iconography and female-associated materials such as fabrics, thread, stitch, patterns and girlish colors. Stitching and needlework will be used in some of my painting and drawings as a three-dimensional visual tool to attract focus into the main subject matter. Such activities have become indelibly associated with stereotypes of femininity hence the decision of using them. Female figurative are exclusively featured in most of my art in order to explore how concepts of femininity can be generated through the use of gender. Figurative Japanese usage of flat

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Nani Dsgnani | Fine Art & Illustration

colour and manga drawing style will inform my work. The aim was to build a visual language that uses uneven body structures and decorative patterning textile to represent a naïve, feminine and whimsical atmosphere to enhance women’s gendered sensibility. In next 5 years, hopefully I’ll have my own art shop and I hope my work has developed into a more serious and stronger bond with my audience. I hope I would able to participate in a biennial art exhibition anywhere in the world and working with a selection of marvelous publications. People can easily find my shop at www. ollanani.etsy.com where people can purchase my original artworks, printed version and handmade creation.

NANI DSGNANI Fine Art & Illustration Work Displayed: Self Portrait | Friendship Series | The Sister Upcoming Event: 8/26-11/8 “Folk Art | Fine Art, Contemporary Art” Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Contact Details: • www.designani.net • www.designani.blogspot.com • nanisakurai@yahoo.com

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What is your current career and title?

I’m a senior level graphic designer, illustrator and owner of Salvatier Studios in Los Angeles, CA. We focus on design and illustration for branding, web, apparel and print. Lately we’ve been getting lots of logo design and identity requests. It’s great that people see the importance of a solid and effective brand and it allows us to use our illustration skills to design a mark that will be lasting and memorable. We also work on cool stuff like snowboard and skateboard decks, album design and graphics tees for established and independent labels. Personally though, I’ve been working my way back to more in illustration, character design and story development. One way I’ve been doing this is by sharing my work on deviantART and my blog under the name “Tanoshiboy” to gauge people’s likes. In the end, I do what I love, but I love being able to see what people are excited about and responding to. I’m also a blogger. I write for my own blog, the Tanoshiboy Chronicles, and for “For the Love Magazine” in the UK. I like sharing works in progress, knowledge I’ve acquired about design, running a design business and design in general. The readership has grown immensely in just one year. Interacting with designers, illustrators and people who love and admire design has been amazing as well. There really is a thirst for design and illustration and I get to quench it.

When did you first realize you were an artist and where did it take you?

I was about 5 years old and I remember we were out to dinner. I’d been given a packet of those little crayons you get with one of those kids activity placemats. I went crazy coloring and drawing on it. I remember my parents noticing that I stayed within the lines and coordinated the colors really well. I think it was then I noticed

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Dennis Salvatier | Illustration

a.k.a

Tanoshiboy “I was about 5 years old and I remember we were out to dinner. I’d been given a packet of those little crayons you get with one of those kids activity placemats. I went crazy coloring and drawing on it.”

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Dennis Salvatier | Illustration

that I really loved design. In school 1st grade, my classmates offered me candy and anything of value that they had in their pockets, to draw their class project – a scene from Pete’s Dragon (the movie we had just seen in class). When the teacher noticed I had been doing the other kids’ work I was reprimanded, but admired at the same time. In 5th grade, during Simpsons mania, I sold photo copies of my Simpsons drawings for 25 cents. It’s then I realized I could make money doing what I loved. So my parents put me in drawing and painting classes. I was lucky to be able to do that since most parents don’t nurture that part of a kid’s development. Drawing and coloring is just for fun, but for me it was my future. In high school I was lucky to attend the Rowland Animation program, which taught me about story and animation. I created two short films and one received an award from the LA Student Film Festival in 1996. During design school I learned about graphic design,

furthered my skils in animation and learned the value of type and design. I loved the art of logo design and effective print design that conveyed a message. I took on lots of jobs after design school, all in different sectors – screen printing, real estate, fashion, marketing and promotions, and non-profits. After losing my full-time gig I decided it was time to go into business for myself. And here I am.

What would you credit for your inspiration?

When I was a kid I was inspired by cartoons and comics. I would get up early and watch the Looney Tunes, Felix the Cat, Popeye and other classics. I loved it. When I realized that these were drawings that were given life, I knew I wanted to learn more about it. Then a new generation of cartoons came into the scene. Shows like He-Man, G.I. Joe, Thundercats,

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Dennis Salvatier | Illustration

Voltron and even Super Friends blew my mind. Of course Disney animated features became a huge influence on me as well, especially the classics. I think it was the fact that to me the drawings seized to be drawings and more like living things that did all kinds of crazy things or had awesome adventures. That whole world led me to find comics. Archie and Disney comics were the first books I read, but then I found Marvel and DC titles and I was hooked. But the one movie that really pushed everything into overdrive was “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”. It completely captured my imagination and I knew that this whole world of animation and comics was something that I wanted to be a part of. My style of design and illustration has evolved over the years and I find myself taking the lessis-more approach to design and going back to my cartoon roots in my illustration. I’ve created several original characters and the stories behind them, which you can see in my current illustration work. Its fun stuff and what I want to focus on for the future. You can definitely see how animation and comics have influenced me.

If you could aspire to be like one famous artist, who would it be?

Most people might not recognize the name of Rea Irvin, but he was a graphic artist and illustrator who started his career pre-World War I. He became the very first art director of the New Yorker. He created the New Yorker typeface and designed Eustace Tilley, the publication’s mascot. He did it all, from art directing, to illustration, cartoons, designing of typefaces and new ways to layout a page. The success of the magazine was due to Irvin’s quick wit and quirky illustrations. That’s something I admire.

Where do you see yourself and your art in 5 years?

Salvatier Studios might still be around, but my dream is to work under the Tanoshiboy name and design prints, apparel and vinyl toys based on my characters and stories. I fell in love again with my art and I’ve realized life is too short to not do what you love to do. I admire guys like Gary Baseman, Nathan

Jurevicius and Joe Ledbetter for what they’re doing with their art and art in general. I have many projects in different levels of completion that are working towards this dream coming true so I look forward to it. I’d also love to do gallery shows and collaborate more with some of my creative friends and create design communities that can help inspire new generations of artists. Other than that, I hope my lovely wife and I are a few kids into our family.

DENNIS SALVATIER Illustration Work Displayed: Welcome to Earth Spaceboyu | Yuki’s Dream | Lucy loves Argyle | Hello Up There | Harley Quinn | The Best Chums are Weird Ones Contact Details: • http;//salvatierstudios.com • http;//blog.salvatierstudios.com • dsalvatier@gmail.com • Twitter: @salvatier

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ll riders understand that there is something very special about the relationship between horse and rider; Francesca aims to capture the essence of this relationship. Whether a client seeks the exhilaration of horse and rider striving together in competition or more formal equine portraiture, Francesca will always aim to reveal the heart and soul of the unique bond at the centre of equestrian relationships. Christmas 2008 I was given my first, and current, digital SLR camera. I had little experience about photography and therefore joined a forum (talk photography) which greatly helped me broaden my knowledge and acted as a dependable environment for friendly advice. From that point onwards I started taking more and more photographs, in fact, for the past year I’ve been at various Show Jumping events most weekends getting practice.

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“All riders understand that there is something very special about the relationship between horse and rider; Francesca aims to capture the essence of this relationship.”

Francesca Morrison | Equine Photography

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I have a huge passion for the sport and therefore decided to join my friend, who competed at various events around Scotland, as a means of getting more experience. It was at this point that I decided I wanted to take my passion more seriously. I emailed various photographers asking if they were interested in taking me on for some work experience and, last year, I started working with photographer Adrian Sinclair. I am learning more and more from Adrian every day from both business and photography aspects. Although we mainly cover equestrian events, Adrian has given me some variety in the events that we shoot, these include a wedding which I believe was a valuable experience. I try to adapt a unique style in all the photographs taken throughout every one of my

photoshoots, however, given that there is only much you can do with horses, I always listen to the riders views on what sort of photographs she is looking for. I mostly use Florabella actions on my photographs and am inspired by alot of equestrian, portrait and fashion photographers. These include: Kevin McIntyre, Levi MacDonald, Shelly Paulson and Rolf Hicker, I believe that every one of their photographs captures the moment perfectly. Something that I am looking forward to this year is attending college where I will be studying photography, I hope to be able to gather more valuable experience, particularly with taking photographs of people in a studio and on location. In the future I hope to be able to get an internship with a well established fashion

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Borders Scotland Show

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Campsie Show

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Border Union Show (Kelso)

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photographer, as well as continuing with my travels around the UK covering equestrian Show Jumping events. I have set many goals and planned various shoots for this summer, I hope be to able to purchase a film camera and commence my prospective project named “ a bond so strong “ . I aim to be able to show various moments that capture the strong connection between a girl and her horse. At the moment I’m working hard on my portfolio and various photoshoots for which I charge a small fee. For those of you who may be interested in some of my work, do not hesitate to email me directly. You can also find my work on the various websites whose links I have listed below, these include Flickr, deviantart and Facebook.

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FRANCESCA MORRISON Equine Photography Work Displayed: For more information regarding the work shown in this article, please contact the artist directly. Contact Details: • www.fm-photos.com • fmorrison90@ymail.com • DeviantArt • Official Facebook Page • Twitter • Flickr

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Prakash Bal Joshi | Fine Art & Painting

“Using oil on canvas, Joshi’s powerful brush strokes bring alive through abstract forms the subtle realities that lie behind the outer look of different objects...”

aintings, ink-drawings and sketches by Prakash Joshi, a Mumbai (India)-based artist, reflect a recurring theme—the transient nature of life and the Nature itself. Joshi’s creations go beyond, what he calls the outer look of various animate and inanimate objects that populate this planet, and try to reveal the subtle nature lying underneath their visual forms. Thus the buildings, streets, trees, bushes, lakes, rivers and myriad other objects he paints assume mystical aura about themselves. His ink or penon- paper sketches and drawings portray massive changes in the urban landscape brought on by development that reflect two self-contradictory movements—rise in material comforts and fall in values. Some of them show in subdued hues human emotions like love and disillusionment while a few others simply convey the complications of human mind through a series of mazes.

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Using oil on canvas, Joshi’s powerful brush strokes bring alive through abstract forms the subtle realities that lie behind the outer look of different objects like buildings, streets, trees, bushes, hills, lakes, rivers and the seas with humans and creatures populating these places. “For me, painting is a spontaneous process. I let my inner turmoil and the creative response it triggers guide my expressions on canvas. At the root of all this is the quest who I am, why I am here and where I am going,” he says. Joshi feels a mysterious spiritual connect with rivers— something that seems to stem from his childhood tryst with swimming in a river which almost ended in his drowning. He evocatively uses river as a visual metaphor in his works to portray the flow of life, and the loss he feels when he thinks of many rivers that have been lost due to ravages of Time. His most enduring interest, bordering almost on obsession, is the disappearance of the mythical River Saraswati, on whose banks ancient sages are believed to have composed the great Vedas in India. Joshi is an accomplished wordsmith, who has published two collections of short stories depicting the changing life in bustling megapolis that is Mumbai. A writer with a sharp eye, he reflects in his works the transitional nature of human life and the Nature itself. Breath-taking transformation of urban landscape, with attendant rise in material well-being and fall in values weigh on his mind. So does the continual degradation of environment, and the Nature’s way of reviving itself-- first through destruction and then through regeneration. Joshi’s rendition of these feelings through abstract forms offers his inner, deeper philosophical perception of subtle realities behind different objects around us. “Words and images are inseparable part of my life for as long as I can remember. It is through the constantly interplay between these two in my mind that I express myself on canvas,” says Joshi. Destruction of environment through human greed also forms a powerful narrative in Joshi’s paintings. They show how the Nature goes through the cycle of creation, destruction and creation again. Which brings alive the anguish of the subjects and all of Joshi’s creations, he confesses, are spontaneous reflections of the turmoil he feels within over Existence and the purpose of his own part in it. “For me, art is a spiritual quest that connects me with the whole universe,” he says. A keen observer and narrator of the rise and decline of Leftist regimes globally, Joshi brings forth a pivotal part of these revolutions in his drawings in powerful

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Select participation by artist Prakash Bal Joshi • Solo show of PBJ art work at Colorida Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal –November 2011 • Pune Artfest 2010 organized by the Indiaart Gallery at Empress Garden Pune to observe World Environment Day. Live demonstration for group of amateur artists by Prakash Bal Joshi • Las Vegas International Exhibition of select artists February 2010 at the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art Museum. (The museum authorities decided to include PBJ’s art work in permanent collection.) • A group of authors, photographers and artists undertake to record life in Dharavi- the biggest slum in Asia in central Mumbai. The slum will be demolished to make way for high-rise towers. PBJ participates in the Dharavi documentation project 2010 • PBJ’s art work exhibited at the Kalaghoda festival Mumbai -2010 • Art work selected for IV Biennial of Coruche, Portugal -2009 • Online exhibition World Water Day 2009, recorded on the UN website along with important events of the Day. • Two-week solo exhibition “subtle changes” at the Indiaart gallery Pune 2009. • Art auction for Children of Malavai, Auction conducted by noted curator Erik Throstvedt, Norway - 2009 • Women & Water Rights: Rivers of Regeneration, Minneapolis University, USA 2008 • Participation in the international group show organized by Galerija Vernissage, Osjik, Croatia -2009 • Artist Center members group show-2009 • “Subtle Changes” solo exhibition of art work depicting impact of climatic changes on environment as well as human behaviour. Exhibition Kitabmahal was launched by artist Nawaz Singhania (while personal website published by Maharashtra Governor S.C.Jamir 2008.) • Participated in group show Explicit -Implicit at Bangalore Gallery G -2008 • Artist Centre group show 2008 • Artist Centre group show 2006 • Gateway exhibition of paintings and sketches launched by then Maharashtra CM Vilasrao Deshmukh and renowned editor Kumar Ketkar - 2006 Coming up • Participation in group show at Milan, Italy – 2011 • Solo exhibition at Kitabmahal, Mumbai – 2011 Coming exhibitions • Abstract city – painting exhibition in Mumbai September 2011 • Launch of a coffee table top book – collection of ink on paper sketches depicting loneliness of urban life and travails of marginalized people for mere survival

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black and white interlining line strokes. These drawings highlight and display a stark moving and mesmerizing ritual of political foreplays that are deliberately avoided by artists today for fear of upsetting the apple cart of capitalism. Joshi’s works in charcoal fill that vacuum by providing an exhilarating and refreshing peek into this an art that once in an era fuelled the French revolution. The urban finesse of these works appear to depict the eccentric minimalist in him and might obvious remain the reason for the popularity of his works worldwide. Joshi has held solo shows and participated in group exhibitions in India, the U.S and Europe. He has worked for over three decades as a journalist for many of India’s prestigious newspapers and magazines, including The Times of India, which, he believes, provided him a window to the world.

PRAKASH BAL JOSHI Fine Art & Painting Work Displayed: Shadow of Love | Attachment of Unknown | Distant Song | Deconstruct Contact Details: • http://www.prakashbaljoshi.com • pbj2006@gmail.com

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was 9 years old when I hold a camera in my hands for the first time. It was a film camera, and we were on journey through Netherlands. I remember the huge fields of tulips I could see through the finder, it was amazing and I was really looking forward to see the result. It’s only when we came home that we found out that my parents forgot to put a film in the camera. I live in France, I grew up between corn fields and muddy ponds. As many, I learned photography by myself. I started playing with my digital camera while bored. During family meals, I stole my mother’s camera and started picturing everything and anything. This helped me train my view of the world, and learned the basics like aperture or shutter speed. I started with a very simple compact camera, and when I was done taking pictures of everything around me, I decided to start setting up some scenery. I wanted to create instead of wait. Stop representing start simulating. In the same moment I discover digital transformation, and I use it to change the colors and make my pictures more fascinating. My inspiration comes from music, long walks in the fields with my camera, friends and accessories of all kind found on the way. Nearly everything is a source of inspiration.

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Eulalie Varenne | Photography

My first pictures were about objects. Fishing a television out of the canal, looking in the dump, finding stuff in the attic… A shooting becomes a real mission where most of the time is not spent behind the camera, but for finding the perfect place. What I liked, and still fancy in photography is that I can simply capture a moment in time the eye can’t see. That’s why I took a lot of pictures of jumping persons. This movement, the moment where the person is in the air, like in levitation is fascinating me. There is a lot more I would like to do. I already started, but I don’t know if I will finish it sometime. Illustration, music, painting, bodyart, street art, painting on T-shirts, jewelry… If I stop in the middle it’s only because I don’t have the patience to finish it… Whereas in photography everything is so fast, so immediate. I’m not a professional photographer, I study plastic art at university. This year will focus on a personal project. As a plastic art I naturally choose digital photography, to continue working seriously on what I like, and dig deeper in my work. I decided to work on the themes of dreams, absurd, fantasies but also the universe of childhood and fairy tales. I create an imaginary world based on a true world with the help of photography. The work on the scenery helps me representing a dream anyone could have had. I always try to keep in mind this feeling I had when I first did my pictures of jumping people. I continue taking pictures of persons “floating”, and most of the time try to represent (with a work on the color) a gentle and quiet world where the spectator would like to go in. Dreams are fascinating. Adventures and stories we live while we sleep escape all kind of logic. It’s a new reality appearing to us, and it seems completely normal, even when it’s completely mad. We don’t always remember, dreams vanish right after waking up. Sometimes we even think we didn’t dream at all, but that’s

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Eulalie Varenne | Photography

not true. We all dream around ten different things every night. It’s common to every Human, without distinction of age, sex and localization on the planet. Today we no longer can be sure that the pictures we see are real images taken from the global understanding, or taken from the reality or the universe of the photographer. This doubt in the spectator’s mind that’s interesting me. The fact that he is in front of a picture and can’t really know if this is now a real photo or a manipulation. I do little manipulation. By now I only use it for colors, contrasts and luminosity. Lot of people are asking me how I did to take this or this picture. But it’s like a magic trick if you explain it the magic is gone. I’m kind’ of a picture magician, and for not loosing the mystery around my work, I avoid explain how I did it. I don’t know what I will do later, even if I have to chose by the end of this school year. What I’m sure about is that I will continue in art for one or two years. If I manage to get my place in photography, it’s fine, else I will go grow kiwis in New-Zeland. Whatever happens I will continue to watch time passing by, taking pictures of the best moments in it, or imaginary moments to make people wanting to enter my world dream.

EULALIE VARENNE Photography Work Displayed: For more information regarding the work shown in this article, please contact the artist directly. Contact Details: • http://kiwix.new.fr • Official Facebook Page • kiwix.photography@yahoo.fr

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Yasin Hasanian | Digital Art

Crawling “In my opinion to be a good artist one needs to obey at least three criterias. First and foremost is accepting criticism with open arms even if you have spent months working on an artwork. It has happened to me that I had worked on something for about three months and after I showed it to a pro he simply bashed it!”

ince I was a kid I have always had a special love toward sci-fi stuff. Although I tried bringing my imaginations on the paper I was not really good at painting at all yet the imaginations were still crawling in my mind! At the age of 14 I found out I’m totally in love with CG(though I didn’t know what that was at all) since I was a huge fan of video games and heavy vfx movies of that time thereby things got pretty serious and I started learning flash at first, after a couple of months I got bored of it and decided to learn 3DsMax by following a translated book. Again after a few months I heard of Maya and assured myself this software was going to be the one I should master, however there were rumors around about how harder Maya was.After all I went out and bought a very basic translated video tutorials pack on how to work with maya. It really got me attracted to Maya but I knew I had to learn way more than that.

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Yasin Hasanian | Digital Art

In a country like Iran not many people know what CG is at allthat’s why I never believed in going to art institutes to learn 3D softwares or even digital arts. It was when I stopped by a computer store hanging a paper on its door mentioning “50 maya tutorial CDs by Gnomon”. Oddly enough I was like WOW! As I couldn’t resist such thing I had to simply get them but at that age I didn’t have much money to buy them.The only option I had was to ask my parents to give me some money, after discussing for hours with my mother, we finally reached an agreement stating I wash the walls of our house and then I could get the money(our house is pretty big so …)! Anyway, I got those VCDs and totally spent days and nights following them for a year or so. Since then i have been learning all about what concerns my area of expertise by simply being active on and following online artsy websites. Even now that I am 20 I’m struggling to do what I love the most to do, or rather I have been fighting for it all my life because there are people that are yet not sure if it is really possible to make living by doing arts or not and basically I didn’t have any noticeable support from anyone but myself. I stick this theory to my mind, “only follow your passion and NEVER give up” otherwise you will end up working in an exhausting career which would bring about no improvement in work. If there is no one around you working in the field you like to pursue you become the first person to do it! I have never gone to any art school as I’m self-thought, meanwhile I’m studying Computer Science at university. Currently I’m working as a freelancer in Iran but hopefully as soon as things get sorted out here I will be able to relocate anywhere preferably Canada to reach my dream which is working in big companies. In my opinion to be a good artist one needs to obey at least three criterias. First and foremost is accepting criticism with open arms even if you have spent months working on an artwork. It has happened to me that I had worked on something for about three months and after I showed it to a pro he simply bashed it! At first I got too depressed and thought It was the end of it but he criticized it the right way by telling which parts looked goofy and needed more works. Therefore I went ahead and reworked it from scratch, the result was absolutely muchmuch better than the previous version. Since then I became a huge fan of criticism. The second criteria is prediction ability. One who wanted to become better in any field may have been advised to “practice and practice” and I bet every one of us has heard that phrase quite often. My point is the same but from another aspect. The more one practices the more he/she would figure out the ups and downs of an art creation pipeline meaning on the next practice he/she would know how to avoid the failure in a certain situation. So the more you practice the better you can predict next stage of the pipeline. This prediction results to two positive points, success and speed, meaning later you will end up with a better art piece in less time spent than before and probably with better quality. In 3D still creation it is specifically noticeable while setting up the shaders/materials and making the required textures. The third one is observation. In the world we live anything that happens is caused by something in a logical way. Going out looking at

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Yasin Hasanian | Digital Art

the world around and trying to digestvisually every little bit of everything, definitely empowers the ability to create more believable arts.In other words, knowing the object features in real life and trying to match those features to digital art is a great plus. For example you see a rock outside, look at it closer and attempt to separate its features such as color, reflectivity and etc, this way you could create a more photorealistic rock in the CG world if your CG environment is set to be physically correct. I get the inspirations from different angles but my most favorite artist is Olivier Ponsonnet, his works simply rule! One of my aims to master is being able to capture the mood in my works as Olivier does in his. I myself am more interested in character designs as of now which to me seems pretty cool, fun, interesting and appealing to do. Often I get the inspiration for my artworks either from photos or from the concepts of some amazing 2D artists. As a matter of fact I don’t have a fixed style of work, I

like to experiment with different types of looks to achieve something that looks pretty nice and as much photoreal as possible. In my spare time I tend to play basketball, go swimming, watch movie, listen to music, play video game or possibly hang out with friends.

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Beautiful simplicit

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Josefine Jönsson | Photography

“By the beginning of 2006 I tried to express myself through photography. I took a lot of self-portraits and photos with themes such as dreams and nightmares. This was also when I had my first photoshoot with my very best friend Harriet.”

When did you first realize you were an artist?

I’ve always been interested in art since a very early age. When I was younger I used to draw a lot, usually always portraits as I liked to create my own characters. But now and then I felt for trying something new. By the beginning of 2006 I tried to express myself through photography. I took a lot of self-portraits and photos with themes such as dreams and nightmares. This was also when I had my first photoshoot with my very best friend Harriet. It was during spring when some yellow flowers bloomed and we decided to have a shoot amongst them. After this shoot I realized that photography was something I wanted to continue with.

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Josefine Jönsson | Photography

Where are you from?

I’m from a small village in South of Sweden. At the moment I live in Stockholm.

Where did you study and what was your focus?

I am mainly self-taught in photography as I’ve been experimenting a lot on my own. But at the moment I’m attending Gamleby Fotoskola where I am studying commercial and editorial photography. Other than that I do not have much more education.

How would you describe your style?

At first I would have said it was always about dreams and creating sceneries and characters that were quite timeless. But if I was to describe my work as it is today I couldn’t really explain it only through words. I think you’ll have to see it as it is very different from every shoot.

Sometimes it is more personal and other times it is more fashion and beauty. I can’t decide which I prefer the most, or how to describe them, but I think my work has always been about portraying simplicity in a beautiful way.

What do you use for inspiration?

Almost everything! But I am mostly inspired by dreams, memories, music, movies and nature. Sometimes when waking up from sleep I can have several ideas for a shoot! But I mostly get my inspiration when I travel because I do this quite a lot.

Who would you credit for your inspiration?

The people close to me, friends and family. I also find a lot of inspiration on the net, there are so many great photographers out there! A few photographers I am inspired by are Carl Bengtsson, Jimmy Backius and Emma Jönsson Dysell.

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Josefine Jönsson | Photography

Where do you see yourself and your art in 5 years?

I’d like to say working in Japan within their fashion industry, but that would be dreaming too much! I try to think quite realistic about this, hopefully I will be photographing or retouching fulltime. For now I am having a hard time to decide whether I like to be photographing or retouching. But I think I’ll always have a love for photography in my heart, so in some way I will keep doing photographing whatever I’ll be working with in some years.

What goals have you set for yourself in regards to your work?

I think it is important to always experiment with new models and ideas, so this will be something that I’ll always think about. It’s important to have a certain style, but also to have the courage to try new things within it. Other than personal goals I’d like to have the opportunity to work with various magazines and creative teams all over the world.

What other interests do you share?

I still love drawing and writing, though I don’t have as much time for it as I used to. My interest for retouching photos has grown a lot also! Other than that I love birds and everything about them.

How and where can people find your work?

By visiting my website: http://josefinejonsson. com

Are your pieces for sale?

A lot of my work is for sale, just contact me through my website.

JOSEFINE J ö NSSON

What equipment do you use?

Photography

Canon EOS 5D mark II Canon 50 mm F/1.4 Canon 85 mm F/1.8

Innovated Magazine is so pleased to have had you involved in our May 2011 Issue. We are happy to share your story and art with our readers. Thank you.

Work Displayed: For more information regarding the work shown in this article, please contact the artist directly. Contact Details: • http://Josefinejonsson.com • http://bloddroppe.wordpress.com • info@josefinejonsson.com