Issue 16: Future by Polemical Zine

FEAR OF NATURE I MAYA EITAM I TEL AVIV, ISRAEL I @EITAMAYA I EITAMAYA.MYPORTFOLIO.COM 2

For the futurists.

COVER: FEAR OF NATURE

All work is the property of its original artist. Thoughts and opinions expressed in the works of Issue 16 belong to each individual and independent author.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Rebecca McLaren | @babygotbecs

SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

Emily Callahan | @em_callahan

MARKETING MANAGER

Nina Stoiber | @ninastoibs

POLEMICAL ZINE I ISSUE 16: FUTURE

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Maggie Rose | @maggierosecashman

Danni Wright | @ladyshipcannabis Alessandra Crupi | @allycrupi @designbyinternos

Ingrid Zijlema | @ingridzijlema

Nathalia García | @naths.jpg Celeste Alvarez | @itsscelestee

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the artists, thank you for confronting the unknown. For putting pen paper and propelling the world forward through your words. For ainting poignant predictions and capturing moments which have yet happen - some of which never will.

or looking forward. For looking backwards. For taking the time to ok in the first place.

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uch love xoxo

REBECCA + THE POLEMICAL TEAM <3

DEAR READER | REBECCA MCLAREN | TORONTO | @BABYGOTBECS | MCLARENREBECCA.WIXSITE.COM/PORTFOLIO

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VISUAL ART FEAR OF NATURE, MAYA EITAM…1, 2 BOT, NEA VALDIVIA…6 GREAT SCOTT, CODY CUPMAN…18 TBT, CODY CUPMAN…19 PLANET ZOHA, LYNDON MUKASA…20 SIMULATED EXISTENCE, STEPHANIE FATTORI…21 AMBIGUOUS FUTURES, AGGIE…22 COMMENCED, ANIKA YVETTE POCH-MCKEE…23 MOOD, NATHALIA GARCÍA…29 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, CALUM STAMPER…30-37 911, WHO AM I?, NATHALIA GARCÍA…39 IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT, LAYAN DAJANI…41 UNTITLED PRINTER VOICINGS, STU SONTIER…42-45 DYSTOPIA, JENNIFER WILLOUGHBY…46 RABBIT NEON, NICOLE LITTLE…47 I’M STARDUST, WYSSOLELA MOREIRA…50 NZAMBE OVITUKULULU, WYSSOLELA MOREIRA...52-53 UNTITLED, DINA BAXEVANAKIS…55 TERRIFYING FACE SWAP, FACESWAPPITY…64-65 ONLY THE ONES WHO LOOK CAN SEE, SU TI…66 SPACE, RÉNA KING…67 DG-01, AESOLAI…68 MODERN MAN, SANDRA PARIS…69 UNTITLED, DINA BAXEVANAKIS…71 A LITTLE GAME OF CAT AND MOUSE, ERICA CAMPITELLI…74 THE CIRCUS, ERICA CAMPITELLI…75

FLICKERING, INGRID ZIJLEMA…91 SPYGLASS AND PECANS, CHANNING GRAY…92 TOOLS OF USE AND ROPE, CHANNING GRAY…93 DONNE, RENA KING…96 THE THIRD EYE, JOHN DELFINO…97 INTELLECTUAL DEATH [ENTELEKTÜEL ÖLÜM], ERHAN US…102-109 BUBBLES, JUSTYNA MASIUK…110 TOGETHER, JUSTYNA MASIUK…111 IT’S ALL AN ILLUSION, NATHALIA GARCÍA…121 A NEW WORLD, VICTORIA VALUK…128-129 UNTITLED, FROM ‘COLLAPSE’, STU SONTIER…130-133 ULTRA, MEGHAN HOLBEN…134-135 UNKNOWN, NEA VALDIVIA…137 STILL LIFE, CELESTE, ALVAREZ…141 UNTITLED, MAGGIE ROSE…145-147 THE MONSTER THAT CONTROLS THE WORLD, LYNDON MUKASA…148 SPACED OUT, MILICENT FAMBROUGH…149 MY CURRENT REALITY VS FUTURE REALITY, MEGHAN LEVAUGHN…150 MY FUTURE SELF LETTER, MEGHAN LEVAUGHN…151 ATRAPADA, NATHALIA GARCÍA…153 IN THE FOREST, FIDAN AKH UNDOVA…154-155 FACING A DRIPPING SHADOW, AESOLAI…157 GUINI IN A BOX, MICHELLE VASQUEZ…158 CAN I PREDICT MY FUTURE WITH A LOLLIPOP?, KEVIN VARIAN / CUTS…159 UNTITLED, NATHALIA GARCÍA…161 CROSSROAD, MILA GVARDIOL…162-163 AHEAD, CELESTE ALVAREZ…165 BLACK BEAU IDEAL STREET, SHARARD “X”…166-167 13 13

VISUAL ART CONT. UNTITLED, COCO SPENCER…168-169 PLATONIC LOVE OF THE 21ST CENTURY, HELOÍSA DE MELO…170 JOY RIDE, STEPH PICOSTARK…171 DUNE, MAGGIE ROSE…172 QUEENING, MONICA LONEY…173 DIAGNOSI, ANALIA ADORNI…174 NATURAL RESPONSE, LARA BUFFARD…175 BLIND EYES, PSYCHOSURREALISM…176 DAYLIGHT WENDIGO, GIUSEPPE PETTINEO…177 BLU FUTURE, MARCO BEVILACQUA…178 OUT OF THE BLUE, BRIGHT SERPENT…179 METAMORFOSI, GIUSEPPE PETTINEO…180 UNI, JOHN DELFINO…181 THE ROBOTS ARE HERE, CURTIS BERGESEN AKA COLLAGE

THE WORLD…182

ABSTRACTS 4, DREW MCLAUGHLIN / 0PTICAL_ARTIFACTS…183 JOURNEY INTO THE CHAOS, SU TI...184 KAERU-BOT, DOFFU...185 UNTITLED, MAGGIE ROSE…187 INTO CALMER WATERS, HANNAH KAPLAN…188 FIND THE LIGHT, HANNAH KAPLAN…189 LOST AND FOUND, JENNIFER WILLOUGHBY…190 ADD MORE FREQUENCY, BRIGHT SERPENT…191 ANAHIT, AESOLAI…193 UNTITLED, DINA BAXEVANAKIS…194 LEGALIZE WOMEN’S RIGHTS, CURTIS BERGESEN AKA COLLAGE 14 14

THE WORLD…196

UNTITLED, COCO SPENCER…199 RECHARGE YOUR BATTERY FOR THE FUTURE, KRYSTAL KATO…200 ABSTRACTS 3, DREW MCLAUGHLIN / 0PTICAL_ARTIFACTS…201 MY TWO MOODS, NATHALIA GARCÍA…203 PERPETUALLY LOST, STEPH PICOSTARK…204 THE STRENGTH, NURIA TOVAR AKA NURIA MIN…205 THE FREEMAN’S, SHARARD “X”…206-207 WHY ARE CHILDREN BORN?, PSYCHOSURREALISM…208-209 WHEREVER, INGRID ZIJLEMA...211 SLEEPING CYBORGS, IVANA SLUNJSKI…214 BECOMING STILL, FANNI SOMOGYI…215 WRONG TIMING, ANTONINA STOIBER...216 WITH OR WITHOUT YOUR LOVE, TEGAN IVERSEN...220-221

MUSIC BETTER IN SPACE, GRACIESOUZ…56-59 EVERYTHING PRESENT 1, COLLARS…94-95 WHOSE SIDE?, SOLEIL…98-101 I AM, MARLOUNSLY…124-125 JUST VERBS, SUNSHINE LOMBRE…142-143 HOUSE ARREST & QUARANTINE, THE LYRICALS (JOSH AND DINO)…218-219 THE FOOL / UNSPOKEN, ANNIE TAYLOR...222-223

WRITING/POETRY PLANS, B. PICK…24-28 15 15

WRITING/POETRY CONT. NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER, JASMINE JENAY…38 IN THE FUTURE, MILICENT FAMBROUGH…40 GIRL MADE OF DUST, ADDIE ELIZABETH…48 ONE DAY, IQRA ABID…54 MY GOLDFISH AND I SANG A SONG FOR APPA, CLAIRE KIM…70 RECONNECTION, ELIZABETH ADAN…90 THE FUTURE IS ANIMAL, JACQUELINE VIOLA MOUITON…112-115 MOVING ON, SARAH JUDSEN…120 MOLDING, ELIZABETH ADAN…126 THEY WERE THE MEADOW, THEY WERE THE LAND, FANNI SOMOGYI…136 DREAMING IS OPTIMISM, MICHELLE DE FREITAS…140 HOUSE OF AFFLICTION, FADRIAN BARTLEY…144-147 TICK TOCK PAIR OF DOCS, SOPHIE JACOBS…152 LIKE WHEN WE WERE KIDS, MICHELLE DE FREITAS…155 I, ROBOT OR VOILA TOUT, MARK A. MURPHY…156 WHAT DID YOU SEE IN THE TEA LEAVES, KAIT QUINN…160 WRITING THE IMPOSSIBLE, MARK A. MURPHY…164 RECIPE FOR THE FUTURE, KATE-YEONJAE JEONG…186 I HAVEN’T MET THE NEW ME YET, KAIT QUINN…192 STARLIGHT, KATE-YEONJAE JEONG…195 A LETTER TO MY NEPHEW, AGED 52, IN YEAR 2068, RACHEL GLASS…197 WINCHESTER, THE DEADLY INHERITANCE, FADRIAN BARTLEY…198 WHAT’S THE POINT OF IT, ANYWAY?, STEPHANIE LI…202 THE DINER, JESS V….210 SCANDAL, JESS V.....217 16 16

PHOTOGRAPHY BEACH IN THE ICE (FEATURING CANDY PORCELAIN), SEIGAR…76-89 THE FUTURE IS ANIMAL, JACQUELINE VIOLA MOUITON…112-115 NOWHERE, MAYA FONG-LEE…116-119 GURGAON’S FUTURE 1 & 2, MARIANNA VANLOO…122-123 VIBRANT FUTURE, ELIZABETH ADAN…127 A PHOTO OF THE ARTIST — VICTORIA FROM BELARUS, VICTORIA VALUK...129

VIDEO MECHANISM, FLAKOROJAS…60-63 MY NAME IS SAMI, DANIELA LUCATO…72-73 PLASMA, MAJA SKJØTH HEGELUND…138-139

OTHER FUTURE QUIZ, MAYA BERMAN & REBECCA KAEBNICK…212-213

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GREAT SCOTT | CODY CUPMAN

TBT | CODY CUPMAN | TORONTO, ON | @CODYCUPMAN

PLANET ZOHA I LYNDON MUKASA I LONDON, UK I @MUKASAART I MUKASAARTS.WEEBLY.COM 20

I am a traditional bas artist who specialises drawing original cart and illustrations with occasional sci-fi, fant and afro-futurist them and elements thrown

SIMULATED EXISTENCE I STEPHANIE FATTORI I PICKERING, ON I @STEPHANIEFATTORI_ART I @STEPHANIE_FATTORI

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Dreaming of a future where people existing outside of the binary are elevated and celebrated, bringing queer bodies into the light!

AMBIGUOUS FUTURES I AGGIE I EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND I @ART.HAG.GIE

COMMENCED I ANIKA YVETTE POCH-MCKEE I TORONTO, CANADA I @ANIK.ART.YVETTE I ANIKAYVETTE.COM

UNTITLED PRINTER VOICINGS I STU SONTIER I AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND I @@STUSONTIERPHOTO

UNTITLED PRINTER VOICINGS I STU SONTIER I AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND I @STUSONTIERPHOTO

STUSONTIER.NET These works emanate from discarded inkjet printers and examine the notion of waste in the digital era. 44

DYSTOPIA I JENNIFER WILLOUGHBY I WESTMINSTER, CO, USA I @WILLOUGHBY_CREATIVE I WILLOUCREATIVE.COM

2D Digital Collage

RABBIT NEON I NICOLE LITTLE I TORONTO, CANADA I @LITTLENEOCREATIVE I LITTLENOCREATIVE.COM

A shrink film rabbit

GIRL MADE OF DUST I ADDIE ELIZABETH | MAINE, USA | @A.DDIE_ELIZABETH

“Girl Made Of Dust” I miss you everyday There’s not a moment I don’t think about you About what happened

It’s crazy how we live two miles apart But I haven’t seen you in a year We haven’t talked in a year

All of my life was spent with you All of the fights Long nights The make believe games we played as kids

That year feels like an eternity It was like I lost a part of who I was by losing you

Laughing and crying All the late nights we’d spend just talking Ten years You were my best friend for ten years You were truly the sister I never had but always wanted All the heartbreaks and watching each other grow into the people we are, or rather the people we were

I feel like I’m slowly shattering every time I think of you and my heart breaks a million times again and again It makes me question how close we really were I don’t know how to stop myself from shattering, I’m too scared to reach out It all ended so suddenly Eventually I’ll be the girl who shattered so hard she became dust The girl made of dust....

I truly thought it would be you and I until the end But all of that ended overnight

-Addie

ONE DAY I IQRA ABID I ONTARIO, CANADA I @THESUNBELONGSTOTHESTARS

You sing me a song over a sink full of dirty dishes and chores become dances, each with their own playful tune. Everything is funny now and every room and hallway swells with our laughter, our collective joy. I’ve stopped picking at my face and chewing my bottom lip raw. You bite your nails less. We pick out paint colours and picture frames. You want to dedicate an entire room to our future pets and I let you. This is our home and we fill it up with all our nonsense and love. During the week, I come through the door to be welcomed with your warmth, your smiles, your voice calling me funny names. You, my nest, where I return after long days of living and finally get a chance to stop. Here, we get to be still, we get to be us. And nothing stops us from laughing from our bellies and making a mess and talking to each other in ways we would never talk to another human being. This is the side of you no one else sees. This is the side of me no one else sees. This is our home, you tell me. On weekends, we curl up on the couch and eat all the junk food in front of the T.V. We make a vacation out of it. Night sweeps across the city and you take my lead and tell the moon all of your stories too, a friend for the both of us. Laying in our beds with moonlight streaming through the windows, I tell you I love you and it feels like I am saying it for the first time. You tell me you love me too and kiss me like you have waited your whole life for this one kiss. When quiet falls over us like a blanket, it is because we are finally asleep. Nestled in each other’s arms, resting and waiting for another day of coming home to you.

UNTITLED I DINA BAXEVANAKIS I TORONTO, CANADA I @DINADRAWS36 I DINA-BAXEVANAKIS.COM

BETTER IN SPACE | GRACIESOUZ | LONDON/SHEFFIELD, UK | @GRACIESOUZ | GRACESDS.CO.UK

The highly anticipated debut from multi-disciplinary artist GracieSouz, Better In Space is a conceptual four track EP inspired by the political and social realities at the time of writing in Summer 2020 whilst also looking to the future and the impact this time period will have on both the individual and world as a whole. Exploring the anxieties of being a young woman, sad, angry at the world and pretty lonely, this record is a magical, expanding journey experimenting with the electro-pop genre. An impressive debut full of bold imagination and emotional vulnerability, it was created as a cyclical record, each track a separate chapter from the same book that steadily grows to a climax reminiscent of epic film scores that it was inspired by.

bedroom experiment and during that time space, in all aspects of the word, became an ideal, a fantasy with its vastness and means of escape to unknown adventure. This became a motif in each song and the sounds of the EP were made to replicate this feeling. To find balance between bewitching cinematic sounds and more aggressive industrial synthesizers. Industrial and ethereal, gigantic and sparse which is terrifying but also exceptionally beautiful at the same time.”

The EP is produced and with additional music by experimental electronic producer Alexander Comana (Miedo Total, Casi Wyn) and mixed and mastered by Nicholas Alexander (Minimal Animal, Battles, Dead Slow Hoot). Lead single, Brian Cox, has already gained support from the likes of Get In Her Ears, Lefuturewave and Music of the Future and had an exclusive video release on Backseat Mafia. Follow up single, Before, An Apparition, has had support from Pink Wafer Club and BTR. Better In Space is an independent record released in April 2021.

BETTER IN SPACE | GRACIESOUZ | LONDON/SHEFFIELD, UK | @GRACIESOUZ | GRACESDS.CO.UK

Speaking about the record, Grace says “It was written across two weeks as a self-fulfilling

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In the coexistence of man with the machines it seems that the human loses ground. The technological development generates restlessness when in diverse areas we observe how, since the industrial revolution, the machines replace the man. MECHANISM It is a man-machine experiment, where I try to reflect the restlessness for the world to come, the future. The video shows the transformation of a man, a dancer, into a machine. Mechanical pieces are installed in the body with the intention of finding new movements and integrating both worlds. A body-mechanical experiment, with unsuspected results. Performance Flakorojas Creating and Editing Flakorojas Flakorojas Sound composition Flakorojas Production Flakogramas Belgium May 2020 ©flakorojas

MECHANISM I FLAKOROJAS I BRUSSELS, BELGIUM I @FAKOROJASS I FLAKOROJAS.WIXSITE.COM/FLAKOROJAS

DANCE FILM / VIDEO ART

MECHANISM I FLAKOROJAS I BRUSSELS, BELGIUM I @FAKOROJASS I FLAKOROJAS.WIXSITE.COM/FLAKOROJAS

TERRIFYING FACE SWAP I FACESWAPPITY I BRANDON, CANADA I @AFACESWAPPITY

ONLY THE ONES WHO LOOK CAN SEE I SU TI I KAOHSIUNG, TAIWAN I @WAHAOIOIOI I ARTSTATION.COM/OIOI 66

These pieces are created under these chaotic years. In the future, chaos will be more to come. Hope everyone’s safe and don’t forget to make everyday artsy, creative, and always have fun.

SPACE I RENA KING I NEW YORK CITY, USA I @RENAKING_ART I RENAKING.ART

DG-01 I AESOLAI I STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN I @AESOLAI.ART

MODERN MAN I SANDRA PARIS I FRANCE I @SANDRAPARIS_PAINTING I SAN-TOOSHYGALERIE.JIMDOFREE.COM

MY GOLDFISH AND I SANG A SONG FOR APPA | CLAIRE KIM | USA 70

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One Saturday evening, my goldfish played Moon River on the record player. i hummed. hummed as i looked down at my buttered toast. toast that looked isabelline and smelled like umma’s cloying perfume. the river i saw from my window hugged the electric blue clouds, the winds, and the softness from the dancing saffron tangerines appa planted in our garden. i sang the line, Two drifters, off to see the world; there’s such a lot of the world to see, and my goldfish would sing, we’re after the same rainbow’s end, waitin’’round the bend and i looked back at the window if appa was there. if he was there with his friend, the other drifter. i chewed on my buttered toast. isabelline butter: the fairy lights to a dark cave i inhabit inside of me. dark cave with no beauty - an empty flower pot. my dark cave, the empty lantern, brightens up when i put my feet inside the lukewarm river. when the river becomes my second appa. and i draw my appa’s face, my appa who left to see the world, with a wooden stick on the sepia sand. his eyes, his lips, his nose - his orange shaped face. i think of him, and i guess my goldfish thinks of him too as it rinses its pelvic fins inside the river, and we think of him over and over again as we sing the Moon River over and over again.we sing to the moon. and the blonde moon would sing to appa, who is on the other side of the world over and over again.

UNTITLED | DINA BAXEVANAKIS | TORONTO, ON | @DINADRAWS36 | DINA-BAXEVANAKIS.COM

MY NAME IS SAMI I DANIELA LUCATO I BERLIN, GERMANY I @DANIELA.LUCATO

“My name is Sami” Short- 2020 Length: 3 minutes 45 seconds HD Color

Director, Writer, Performer: Daniela Lucato Cinematography: Jacopo Pantaleoni

During the COVID-19 pandemic Sami apparently calls a friend to tell her a tragic episode.

TRIGGER WARNING: THIS CONTENT MENTIONS DOMESTIC ABUSE 72

Watch “My name is Sami” here Go to Daniela Lucato’s portfolio here

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This video was made during lockdown and finished on April 25, 2020. It is a reflection about domestic violence, human rights and women’s condition in all countries. I was inspired by a personal involvement: an old friend I met by chance after a long time told me about the abuse she was a victim of from her husband. She thought it was painful, but she accepted it as a normal condition. I was shocked and I told her she needed to contact the police. I thought about this short talk we had for a long time. I really think the way she accepted this abuse, thinking it was normal, is a huge issue for many women. This is something that needs to be changed. This topic is really important for me, and the work “My name is Sami” is a studio for a bigger project. I feel a responsibility as a female artist to make people think about it, to confront themselves with this item. I don’t know if it will help to resolve the problem, but this is a start to fight it. Daniela Lucato started playing theatre in Padua (Italy) parallel to her studies at the university. After her degree in Philosophy, she moved to Rome, Wellington and finally Berlin where she works as an actress/filmmaker. The Birthday (2014), her first short film written/directed in Mandarin/English language, has been officially selected from 25 international festivals (among these Micgenero, Frameline, ShanghaiPride where the film was also nominated for the best cinematography). In 2015, she founded Connecting Fingers Company. Her last productions for theatre are Connecting Fingers, The Wheel, The rebellious Body. Her last films When I dance (2016), The Wheel (2017) are screening in international film festivals. For the time being (2018) received the award as best international short film at DUAF/Tribeca Film Center. In 2019 she wrote/directed the experimental short film Vieni and in (2020) the narrative short Mamma dorme (Mommy’s sleeping). During Covid-19 she wrote/performed/directed the short film My name is Sami. 73

BEACH IN THE ICE (FEATURING CANDY PORCELAIN) | SEIGAR | TENERIFE, SPAIN | @JSEIGAR

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This video art piece explores the concepts of drag and identity. It focuses on communication and language as a way to be more inclusive. The work presents the drag queen Candy Porcelain in the Teide Mountain enjoying a day on the ice as if she were on the beach. She plays with the summer clichés in her chic outfit. The seasons’ twist reinforces the idea that drag is a form of art capable to transform reality and turn it into fantasy. This new video art is part of my focus on identity. MUSIC: SEXTIUM @DAVIDOFFICIALCLUB

BEACH IN THE ICE (FEATURING CANDY PORCELAIN) | SEIGAR | TENERIFE, SPAIN | @JSEIGAR

Seigar is a passionate travel, street, social documentary, conceptual, and pop visual artist based in Tenerife. He feels obsessed with the pop culture that he shows in his works. He is a fetishist for reflections, saturated colors, curious finds, and religious icons. He also writes for some media and does video. His main inspirations are traveling and people. His aim as an artist is to tell tales with his camera, creating a continuous storyline from his trips, encounters, and experiences. His most ambitious projects so far are his Plastic People, a study on anthropology and sociology that focuses on the humanization of the mannequins he finds in the shop windows all over the world, and his Tales of a City, an ongoing urban photo-narrative project taken in London. He is a philologist and also works as a secondary school teacher. He is a self-taught visual artist, though he has done a two years course in advanced photography and one in cinema and television. He has participated in several exhibitions and his works have been featured in many publications. He has collaborated with different media such as VICE and WAG1. He writes for Dodho, The Cultural, Red Hot Monde, Intra Mag, and Memoir Mixtapes about pop culture. Lately, he has experimented with video forms. His last interest is documenting identity. Recently, he received the Rafael Ramos García International Photography Award.

RECONNECTION I ELIZABETH ADAN I PULLMAN, USA I @EDGEOFELIZABETH

reconnection the lamp went out on the street corner where we used to sit and invent new secrets I'm to blame for seeking reconnection but it's way too late to turn the lights back on around us I think you have a bright future have I drawn too much attention by changing the lightbulb?

Elizabeth Adan is a lifelong artist who enjoys deconstructing the smallest moments and largest emotions, often at the same time. Her alliterative, lyrical writing takes on topics ranging from sustainability, nature, love lost/found, and community responsibility. A Pacific Northwest native, her true passion is the great outdoors, soaking up as much inspiration and natural color as possible. Find Elizabeth on Instagram and Twitter @edgeofelizabeth at ElizabethAdan.com or at elizabethadanart.squarespace.com “I am a self-taught artist who employs many offbeat techniques to create colorful, eye-catching work. I am a painter, sketch artist, and graphic designer who often starts from a fresh acrylic painting, photographs it, and then turns the work into graphic art. Frequently using nature imagery as viewed through kaleidoscope eyes, the work helps the viewers see the world from a mindbending new perspective.”

FLICKERING I INGRID ZIJLEMA I GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS I @INGRIDZIJLEMA I INGRIDZIJLEMA.NL

EP: ‘EVERYTHING PRESENT 1’ I COLLARS I CAMBRIDGE, UK I @COLLARSTHEBAND I COLLARSTHEBAND.COM

PHOTO CREDIT: Pete Wales

SINGLE: ‘OVER YOU’

PHOTO CREDIT: Scott Chasserot

DONNE I RENA KING I NEW YORK CITY, USA I @RENAKING_ART I RENAKING.ART

THE THIRD EYE I JOHN DELFINO I OKAZAKI, JAPAN I @NEMO_DELFINO I JOHN-DELFINO.COM

WHOSE SIDE? I SOLEIL I MIAMI, USA I @SOLEFULSOUL I SOLEILWORLD.COM

PHOTO CREDIT: Lea Grandvalet Studer (@imagemephotography)

PHOTO C Lea Gran

Soleil is a singer-songwriter that is originally from New York, but resides in Miami. She has performed on countless stages throughout the country. Soleil has been featured on various media outlets and radio stations. She recently won contests for and garnered recognition from Sony, Music. com, SoundCloud, and ReverbNation. Soleil uses her powerful, polished vocals to tell tales of all aspects of love. Her versatility can clearly be heard: Blues, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, R&B, and Soul. Her music has a little bit of something for everyone. Soleil’s single, “Whose Side?” is sure to prove why she’s a superstar in the making.

CREDIT: ndvalet Studer (@imagemephotography)

WHOSE SIDE I SOLEIL I MIAMI, USA I @SOLEFULSOUL I SOLEILWORLD.COM

Soleil kicked off the month of love with a brand new song titled, “Whose Side?” “Whose Side?” embraces the UK dance scene and blends that sound with Soul vocals and harmonic vocal production. The juxtaposition creates a sonically impressive jam.

PHOTO CREDIT: Lea Grandvalet Studer (@imagemephotography)

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“Whose Side?” is the first of many songs that Soleil produced. The single was coproduced with Aston Marton. The back and forth uptempo and downtempo nature of the song is meant to elicit various emotions or interpretations from listeners. “’Whose Side?’ can be understood in many ways – choosing whether to move forward in a relationship to make

it work, choosing to embrace all layers and versions of a person, and/or the common self vs. self battle, as we are the only ones who can hold ourselves back,” Soleil explains. “Whose Side?” is Soleil’s first song of the year and what a tune it is. The single serves as a captivating prelude to the many releases Soleil has planned for the year. The songstress has an upcoming song with Grammy Award winner Jackie’s Boy and another song with Hip-Hop recording artist Jay Burna. Follow the rise of the soon-tobe household name and add the catchy “Whose Side?” to your daily rotation. VIDEO HERE. 101

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Conceptual artist and author [1987, Ankara]. After Bilkent University TH Management; he was granted to 25+ local and international / honorary awards, with respect to his 11 NGO presidency and marketing projects, participated in 120+ exhibitions in 25+ countries.

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Marianne is a documentary and fine art photographer, with an MA in photography. She is an Associate member of the Royal Photographic Society. Her practice is informed by theories around place and non-place and how images relate to identity and history. She is an advocate of self-publishing and has self-published a few newsletters and a limited edition photo book called ‘Lines of Gurgaon’. In 2019 she was nominated for the RPS 100 heroines campaign, celebrating women in photography today. In that year she co-curated the RPS exhibition entitled ‘unframing our identities’ at HIVE in Blackpool, where over 80 female photographers showcased their work. She has been widely exhibited. Her work has been on display in India, The USA, Italy, France, the Netherlands and the UK. In 2020 her images were included in Portrait of Britain Vol 3 and Rankin’s 2020. She also won in three categories of the World Wide Photography Gala Award and her images were included in the October Fotonostrum magazine. In 2021 she will be exhibiting with Atlas of Humanity in Paris and with the Fotonostrum Gallery in Barcelona. She is also a regional winner of the Heart Valve Voice competition 2020 and her images will be exhibited in Parliament when Covid restrictions have been lifted.

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returns with an immaculatejam titled, “I Am.” The song is an inspiring piece of work that tells listeners to know their worth. “I Am” makes use of a storyline and imagery that listeners all over can relate to. The Pop/R&B hit was produced by 1040. The captivating beat is only matched by the aweinspiring lyrics and breathtaking vocals. The song’s fun, powerful nature makes for the ultimate springtime anthem. Marlounsly is ready to take over 2021, and she has a ton of releases planned for the year. Marlounsly vows to make a profound impact on the game. For now, enjoy the present and put “I Am” on a neverending loop. Marlounsly is a Haitian-American singersongwriter from West Palm Beach, FL. She has amassed millions of views and streams. She has also acquired a sizable social media following. Marlounsly has garnered attention from countless media outlets such as MTV, Flaunt Magazine, ELEVATOR Magazine, UPROXX, RESPECT. Magazine, HotNewHipHop, Sun Sentinel, Nakid Magazine, Miami New Times, and The Palm Beach Post. She has performed live and been featured on MTV’s Instagram. She was interviewed and performed live on FOX SOUL, which is owned by FOX Television Stations. Her music is on rotation on Roku TV. Marlounsly has opened up for acts such as Ella Mai, H.E.R and Summer Walker at major music festivals and tours.

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They were the meadow, they were the land

Thin hair-like strands of marigold plant cells broke through the humanoids’ skin: as they listened to the wind chime through the nearby chestnut trees. Each swayed to the drizzle’s crescendo. In the early stages of their flowering these beings tended to mature fruiting-bodies: nourishing them with nectar, emptying their pores of weeds and preparing supper, where the week’s harvest was consumed. A mature fruiting-body strode into the field, slowed by the dangling peppers, ripening from their ankle to neck. More bodies wandered into the green as the sky fell. water caressed the blueberries, cucumbers and mango their skin bore. Beans draped another’s back, a golden mane of rippling vines, as they danced to the rain’s lullaby and sang to Gaia: giving her thanks. Souls merged in movement. Toes mingled with mycelium. They were the meadow, they were the land, but in constant motion swirling over the soil.

UNKNOWN I NEA VALDIVIA I MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA | @NEA.AU | NEA.MYPORTFOLIO.COM

Fanni Somogyi is a multi-disciplinary artist currently residing in Baltimore, MD. She completed her BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Sculpture and Creative Writing. Her work explores organic and inorganic networks. She is drawn to the foundry process, specifically lost-wax aluminum casting and metal fabrication. When she is not fabricating metal sculptures, she can be found researching or avidly composing her next poem. She has one public sculpture at the Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota installed in the summer of 2019.

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Sun shines through the muck, Through the grey Into the next day And the promise Of a better tomorrow. I sit sipping tea And wonder if the sun Will shine again Next year, Or will I be here Still searching? I think of hill tops And a light buzz At 4pm, In an apartment I always hoped to call my own. A bright city Under my low balcony, Close enough to see their faces And wonder What their story might be.

A record on replay Cause I don’t have much, And a pile of books Cause I have too much. A sun filled room And a woman on my chest To remind me to make breakfast Sooner than later. A day that is new, Old, And entirely my own. That is where I escape to In these isolating and trying times.

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The blast of heavy thunder cracked the silence upon the savage land, repelled lightning bolts

Moved briskly on

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his crutching stick towards the abandoned room,

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and a shadow behind the still curtain invoked the hollow. black dress hung Baby footsteps splattered

on the wall,

with blood marks had their trail

once worn by his deceased

lead to the abandoned room,

wife.

with the reflection of a house lodger

when he reached out his hand and

sweeping the aisle with a dusty broom.

touched the fabric of dark memories

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“If you are still dead” then what are you doing here? flashed vision of her darkling threw his consciousness to the wooden floor back to reality.

And a little girl who stood in front of him without a word, she pointed her finger to the wall, where the returned widow stood in her beautiful black dress and yelled, “get out”. the hour seemed to arrive, when an unforgiving spirit hunt’s justice through the aisle, traced the old codger to the stairs where he once pushed her, And the balance between life and death repaid the ghost, when his crutching stick slipped from a missing step, left her dimple smile upon his last breath.

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UNTITLED I MAGGIE ROSE I MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA I @MAGGIEDASHROSE

Fadrian Bartley lives in Kingston, Jamaica and is a customer

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THE MONSTER THAT CONTROLS THE WORLD | LYNDON MUKASA | LONDON UK | @MUSKASAART

mukasaarts.weebly.com/# I am a traditional based artist who specialises in drawing original cartoons and illustrations with occasional sci-fi, fantasy and afro-futurist themes and elements thrown in.

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SPACED OUT | MILICENT FAMBROUGH | MIDDLE EAST | @MILICENT210 | YOUTUBE.COM/C/MILICENTFAMBROUGH

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WRITING THE IMPOSSIBLE I MARK A. MURPHY I HUDDERSFIELD, W. YORKS. UK

How to define what we feel when words fail us Today, despite what is dead we write the word Past to remind us of the last 10 000 hours unable to claw a way out Not so much buried without due ceremony as buried alive Unable to negotiate this or any other pain An earlobe in the post The tip of a finger A foreskin A joke not for the faint hearted Today, despite what is dead we write the word Present to remind us of the last 20 000 hours unable to love one woman over another Not so much torn between women as torn down the middle Unable to negotiate this or any other need We who have no need of need Not a prayer of a chance Only the nightmare of indifference A joke not for want of trying Today, despite what is dead we must write the word Future

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AHEAD I CELESTE ALVAREZ I SEATTLE, WA, USA I @ITSSCELESTEE I ITSCELESTE.COM

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BLACK BEAU IDEAL STREET I SHARARD “X” I TALLAHASSEE, FL, USA I @SHARARDXART

This piece features the classic times of 1921 forwarded to the current times of 2021 emphasizing Black ownership, The original Black Wall Street of Tulsa, and Black Folq having a good time. Showing glances of Atlanta, Charlotte, and Philadelphia and the blackownership within the bustling cities, below that is the bottom half of Africa engulfed by a modern day Black wall street and an artist painting a painting in the street. The final row is Black people doing what we do better than the rest and that’s have a good ol time. * This piece was selected to be featured on the third edition of the board game Play Black Wall Street, an Essence magazine recognized board game. Medium: Canvas & Acrylic Paint Size: 20x24” To see more: form.jotform.com/210678136788165

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Coco Spencer is a mixed-media artist with an emphasis in analogue collage, originally from Oakland, CA now based in Chicago, IL. She enjoys making album artwork and printed media and hopes to design a pair of sneakers and a design for a drink label. Enthusiastic about collaborations, she loves communicating with other artists.

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PLATONIC LOVE OF THE 21ST CENTURY I HELOÍSA DE MELO I GUAÍBA, BRAZIL I @EDICOES_CHIMICHURRI

JOYRIDE I STEPH PICOSTARK I FERNDALE, MI, USA I @DIGI.TART I DIGITART.GALLERY

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QUEENING I MONICA LONEY I TORONTO, CANADA I @BEAUTIFULLY.MONICA She embraces her true form, able to express and be freed from the constraints of the masculine world. She is queening her way back to self- a true Goddess.

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DIAGNOSI I ANALIA ADORNI I ARGENTINA/ITALY I @ANALIAADORNIARTS I ANALIAADORNI.COM

NATURAL RESPONSE I LARA BUFFARD I HERMOUPOLIS, GREECE I @LARA_BUFFARD_ I LARABUFFARD.COM

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These pieces are created under these chaotic years. In the future, chaos will be more to come. Hope everyone’s safe and don’t forget to make everyday artsy, creative, and always have fun.

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RECIPE FOR THE FUTURE I KATE-YEONJAE JEONG I HOUSTON, USA

one (1) of growth two (2) of hope two (2) of determination one (1) of inspiration one and a half (1 ½) of failure two (2) of success three (3) of joy three (3) of love five (5) of people a dash of sadness a generous sprinkle of gratitude three (3) of memories

Time to concoct: depends on the aligning of the stars, fate, destiny, whichever that is that you believe in difficulty: differentiates between maker, but it’s never easy Stir each ingredient at different intervals, with no particular order. Overmixing or undermixing may produce a different result from intended.

K Your results should produce a beautiful concoction of life and the future, love and peo-

ple, moments in time, valuable memories you’ll want to hold on to forever… and an

endless gift from life soon to come.

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No creation will be the exact replica of another, and no creation will be flawless, but all

will be right in its own way.

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Kate-Yeonjae Jeong is a creative writer

based in Houston, Texas. Kate enjoys

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FIND THE LIGHT I FACEBOOK.COM/HANNAHKAPLANART

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UNTITLED I DINA BAXEVANAKIS | TORONTO, CANADA I @DINADRAWS36 I DINA-BAXEVANAKIS.COM

I was timid, tiny, now I’m thinking how much extraterrestrial glitter-dust has flown by since this time

STARLIGHT I KATE-YEONJAE JEONG I HOUSTON, USA

years from now small stars will burst and fizzle in a splendor of light, ones I used to count and gaze up to amidst the stark contrasting canvas of the night

even when I get older, can I still curl into my tattered blanket and watch the space rocks fly? I want to engrave the diamond specks in my mind and for the stars to remember me, too Kate-Yeonjae Jeong is a creative writer based in Houston, Texas. Kate enjoys photography, scientific research studies, and playing tennis in her free time. You can also find Kate baking during the weekends for her family and friends, or volunteering at the local hospital.

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The Freeman’s This pandemic has taken a lot of twists and turns and countless lives, leaders, and influencers, leaving the next generation to carry the torch. This piece is dedicated to John Witherspoon and Regina King, it also symbolizes the importance of instilling values into our youth for they are our tomorrow. Medium: Canvas & Acrylic Paint Size: 20x24” form.jotform.com/210678136788165

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THE DINER I JESS V. I BOYNTON BEACH, FL, USA I @JESS_VENTURRAA

The Diner

“fun fact,” I told my sister, “80% of NJ citizens live less than 100 miles from home,” except I didn’t say “fun fact” because that is a “here” phrase, not a “there” phrase, and 100 miles isn’t a short distance in NJ anyway. It’s half the state; it’s an excuse, certainly, a reason never to see my sister (though I miss her so on birthdays And when I pass a joint around). maybe it would be an excuse for my mother too, if I turned my “here’s” to “there’s,” uprooted home I plated it in some other soft soil. (though she’d miss me so on holidays and when she would pass my empty room) the plane tickets would be so expensive and my apartment would be so small That it would hardly ever be worth the effort. my sister knows 100 miles is a long way too, though never an excuse; only half of the state. she knows this like I know that I’ve slept away more times in the past year than in my mom’s house and I see her more than my sister lately but here we are all together, reading statistics about the unlikelihood of us sat here together and I let the longing seep into my soft bones, sip my (no diet, never here) soda and try to imagine the ash, my dad Had to walk through to escape this place decades ago.

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Misshapen tower of old tires, with the beginnings of growing trees filling in the holes

Stack of broken computers, their keyboards missing keys and their wires flowing out onto the ground

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FUTURE QUIZ | MAYA BERMAN & REBECCA KAEBNICK | TORONTO, CANADA & QUEENS, NY

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If you chose mostly white...you got THE STARS Thousands of stories dream of them. Entire songs are dedicated just to what may lay above the skies of our little planet. The spirit of adventure overtakes you every time you cast your head towards the evening’s spread of planets, constellations and galaxies. There’s so much to map, so much to explore and to understand. Something calls to you about the gentle swirl of blues and purples and yellows, the explosions far away that you have yet to feel. There’s something unnameable about it all. But what you do know is the stars and the space between them allow you to dream, even with your eyes still open.

@MAYABERMANART & @REX_ATLAST

INSTRUCTIONS

Follow the numbered path but do not fear to stray. Check the branches for what you seek and then continue on your way.

If you chose mostly blue...you got THE OCEANS We spend so long looking at the stars that we often forget to look at what’s right in front of us, down below. Thousands of miles of inky depths, teeming with life and possibility as much as mystery and the unknown. The oceans work in duality. Dark, yet colorful. So empty, so lonely, yet so crowded all the same. Broken ships and treasures lie at its bottoms, protected by an army of creatures that do not yet have a name and have not yet been seen. But you enjoy the uncertainty of it all. You thrive in it. Uncertainty is as much a home to you as your own skin.

A bubbling river that leads back towards the town you came from A clearing with nothing in it, an open view of the sky and the solitude you have been desperately seeking

Someone who has been looking for you too

If you chose mostly yellow... you got PRACTICAL MAGIC Same and familiar, but just different enough for you to take notice. Your world is infused with little bits of magic, from curious little trinkets to large, sweeping contraptions you can’t be sure how they work. Things around you are new but looking at them you wouldn’t be able to tell. The things around you are homey and rustic, made of wood and stone and earthy things. They invite you to come closer, bringing your curiosities with you. Maybe your world isn’t so different after all. Maybe now you simply have new eyes with which to see the magic in it. If you chose mostly green...you got

NATURE RECLAIMED

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If you chose mostly red... you got CYBERPUNK Neon lights casted over rain soaked asphalt and concrete. It never seems to stop raining and even when it does, the streets are foggy with the puffs of smoke coming off of the buildings molded into odd shapes. People crowd closely, making the damp air warm but no one complains or seems to notice. Water collects on shining, metallic skin and everywhere you look, the landscape is colored by the watchful eye of technology- constantly learning, equating, becoming better than it was the day before.

Around you, there is a hush. Maybe it’s the vines and the leaves blanketing the ground, the moss climbing across the walls of worn down buildings. There’s peace in the abandonment. In the loneliness. Animals’ chatter is louder now than it has ever been, at least as far as you can remember. It’s green and brown as far as the eye can see, dotted with the bright colors of wild flowers that have begun to make a home in the places that were once homes. There’s a calm in that.

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WRONG TIMING I ANTONINA STOIBER I CANADA I @ASTOIBER_DESIGNS

it makes me sad to have no place to put My filthy poems for future guests it’s essential to let them know everyone should burn with abandon as soon as the heat is available be a self-styled alarm clock no one can shut off be the storm Love places in someone’s home are you sure we can handle this because I am certain the wind knocks us around we are a tide that cures ills look at us in the mirror as soon as the invented language enters us something else will vibrate in our skin opening the door with the teeth of the future to the place where we let the freer feeling go when you told me you had been looking for me we pressed through an invisible barrier between us and I watched you gently. Let the gods know you are ready to win the lottery there were people from the 19th century alive in my lifetime many years ago I met some of them but they are all gone now as we hold onto the side of one another howling down onto The velocity of seconds.

SCANDAL I JESS V. I BOYTON BEACH,FL USA I @JESS_VENTURRAA

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LISTEN TO ‘QUARANTINE’ HERE.

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THE FOOL / UNSPOKEN I ANNIE TAYLOR I SWITZERLAND I @ANNIETAYLORBAND I ANNIETAYLORBAND.COM

ANNIE TAYLOR

To me, Gini, The Fool is definitely the most meaningful song of the record. I wrote it with a big heartache, and I remember the first five times I played it one the guitar, I even had to cry a bit. It’s about longing for somebody’s love and just getting a glimpse out of it and running circles, until you find yourself as “the fool”. Unspoken has a similar background, but this song is more about finally accepting and letting go. Both of the songs were recorded at “Dala Studios” where we also did all the recordings for our first record “Sweet Mortality”. We actually recorded the second single “Unspoken” in the beginning of this year and it felt really good to be back at Dala Studios with David Langhard. David (the producer) is such a genius, when it comes to understanding the way we want our music to sound. I showed him our selfmade demo. version of the song “Unspoken” and explained with weird sound imitations, what we want the guitars to sound like. After 10minutes into recording the songs, he brought a little fuzzy elephant into the recording cabin and told me to strum the strings with the elephant as a plectrum. The fuzzy plectrum changed the sound of the guitar a lot and the outcome are dreamy, soft guitar vibes. I don’t really remember what musical inspirations were in the back of my head when I wrote the song but I think

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maybe Soccer Mommy, Lana del Rey, Aldous Harding and Alex G inspired the vibe that we got into the recording in the end.

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THANK YOU

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ARTISTS WE LOOK FORWARD TO

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Addie Elizabeth Aesolai Aggie Alessandra Crupi Analia Adorni Andrea Valdivia Anika Yvette Poch-Mckee Annie Taylor Asja Tustanowska Astrid MacDougall b. pick BrightSerpent Calum Stamper Candy Porcelain Celeste Alvarez Channing Gray Chris Douglas Claire Kim Coco Spencer Cody Cupman Collars Colwyn Curtis Bergesen (aka Collage The World) Daniela Lucato Danni Wright Dina Baxevanakis Doffu Drew McLaughlin (aka 0ptical_Artifacts) Eddie Love Elizabeth Adan Emily Callahan Erhan Us Erica Campitelli Faceswappity Fadrian Bartley Fanni Somogyi Fidan Akhundova Flakorojas

Giuseppe Pettineo GracieSouz Hannah Kaplan Heloísa de Melo Ingrid Zijlema Iqra Abid Ivana Slunjski Jacopo Pantaleoni Jacqueline Viola Moulton Jasmine Jenay Jennifer Willoughby Jess V. JOHN DELFINO Justyna Masiuk Kait Quinn Kate-Yeonjae Jeong Kevin Varian/Cuts Kirin Xin kristyan kato Lara Buffard Layan Dajani Lea Grandvalet Studer Lyndon Mukasa Maggie Rose Maiya Fong-Lee Maja Skjøth Hegelund Marco Bevilacqua Marianne van Loo Mark A. Murphy Marlounsly Maya Berman Maya Eitam Megan Holben Meghan LeVaughn Michelle De Freitas Michelle Vasquez

Mila Gvardiol Milicent Fambrough Monica Loney Nathalia García Nicole Little Nina Stoiber Nuria Tovar (aka Nuria Min) Psychosurrealism Rachel Glass Rebecca Kaebnick Rebecca McLaren Réna King Samantha Pertusiello Sandra PARIS Sarah Judsen Seigar Sharard “X” Soleil Sophie Jacobs steph picostark Stephanie Fattori Stephanie Li Stu Sontier Su Ti Sunshine Lombre Tegan Iversen The Lyricals Victoria Valuk Wyssolela Moreira

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