Rabarbaro #2

Rabarbaro magazine edited by The World Through Green Eyes #2 July 2014. ▲ www.twtge.com ▲

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Dear readers, what you are about to read in the next page is our brand new motto “don’t be scared to be an artist”. In our contemporary world ruled by conflicts and hate, Art is one of those little but important things that can still bring a smile to your heart, and can help us survive, feeling connected. Rabarbaro’s aim is to support artists, especially those from a younger generation and to help them express their artistic world made of hopes and sacrifices. This issue, in particular, summarizes the many essences of the artists: from the self-taught and naif creators, to those who want to renew art and those who preserve its history. But Art is not always the vision of a singular, it can also be a powerful way to spread a message like for Shaney Jo Darden, creator of Keep A Breast, who decided to fight breast cancer raising awareness through art, music and sport.

You can read her inspiring interview (p.45) visit her website www.keep-a-breast.org and help by making a donation. Art is love!

I want to make a special thanks to Shelbie and Anna for being so kind, sweet and patience and for contributing in this new project, thanks so much for believing and supporting. Thanks so much for the love, patience and time to Florencia, thank you girl to believe in me from the first time!; to Laura, thanks for your patience, you are so sweet, and amazing!; to Danny, Meredith & Lucinda!, you are fantastic! thanks so much to know you all and your art; to Shaney, no words! you are wonderful, thanks so much for your time and words; to COX, thanks so much! Thanks also to Rhiannon, Eylül and Elisa for your contribution. Thanks also to Matteo, my brother, for helping me as always and for partecipating in this issue. Thank you Barbara for helping me with the translation, with patience and and impressive speed. You really are Magic!; to Amanda and Kate, you are always my favourite ones!

I really owe you one. A Big big special thanks also to Mariya Ustymenko & Luiza Potiens for their support and love to every one of my projects! Finally, a big thanks to all the Photographers, Graphic designers, Writers, Poets and Readers, who support me and make all the submissions. A special thanks to Florencia for the Spanish version, heartfelt thanks.

Hope you like it, Luca Tommaso Cordoni

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RABARBARO MAGAZINE #2 July 2014 Edited and curated by Luca Tommaso Cordoni Revised and corrected by Matteo Cordoni, Barbara Tosi, Kate Pulley & Amanda Pulley.

Contributors for this issue: Shelbie Dimond, Anna Hollow, Matteo Cordoni, Rhiannon Adam, Eylül Aslan.

Artists: Shelbie Dimond, Florencia Lampugano, Laura Sfez, Danny McShane, Meredith, O’ Little Sister, Shaney Jo Darden, COX. Cover: “Henry & Shelbie” by Shelbie Dimond Draw by Anna Hollow

Index

Cover Focus

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Florencia Lampugano

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L’ Ecole des Femmes

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Brisbane got Folk an interview with Meredith, Danny McShane & O’Little Sister ...................... 24 Keep A Breast Foundation

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COX

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The Informer ..................... 54 Matteo’s Hill Heaven ..................... 58

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Shelbie Dimond Shelbie Dimond is a young professional photographer, model & actress who’s originally from a little town in the Western Michigan, now living by the sweet, hot and crazy California. Shelbie’s works represent the essence of beauty and classicism, and suit my personal definition of true photography:timeless images.

Shelbie has the effortless beauty of an old movie star and her models, including herself, seem chosen with the same mania of Hitchcock’s girls. My favorite photos are her self-portraits, and those of her family, with her husband Oscar and their rabbit Henry, so intimate and natural. Shelbie’s talent is growing day by day, but her style has something that you’d hope it would never change, as for all the really beautiful things. www.shelbiedimond.com

Anna Hollow Anna Hollow, pseudonymous of Anna Hatzakis, is a 19 years old artist & photographer from South California. She is a little red-haired girl, half Lolita and half Dorothy-like, with a sweet face that seems coming out straight from the 20’s. All of her works are set into the world of fairy tales, with wild animals & wonderful dresses. They all take place in the countryside, with an atmosphere of absolute beauty and romantic decadence. Anna is a very talented drawer who started at a very young age, as she recalls, she started drawing from the moment she could handle a crayon, and her immense passion is alive in her perfect attention to details. Anna’s portrait subjects are celebrities, famous artists, singers, actresses painted in her dreamy style, and girls who look like her, with big eyes and small fleshy mouths. www.annahollow.tumblr.com 7

Florencia Lampugano Florencia is a young artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the demonstration of the love for art. She is a self-taught illustrator, something hard to belive considering her amazing work. Her drawings are extraordinary, maniacally perfect. Her portraits of artists, actors, singers, and as well as her self portraits are real, sweet and romantic in all their lines and colors. I love her definition of illustration, “a bridge, a connection between writer and reader.” So, every drawing, every portrait, becomes a great story to read and interpret.

Hi Florencia, please introduce yourself.

How born an your work?

Hello, my name is Florencia, I’m 22 years old and I’m a self-taught illustrator.

Sometimes it’s born out of an idea or a specific image that inspires me.

What is illustration?

Do you have some favorite place to draw?

An illustration is a bridge, a connection between writer and reader. It usually guides and helps the reader in the process of interpreting a text in a visual way.

I like to draw next to a big window there’s on my living room, I find inspiring the way light comes in and lights up my desk.

How did you get into illustration?

Where did you get inspiration?

Last August I started an illustration course that I dropped out two weeks later, and in that short period I could get an idea of its main purpose and methods. I was so enthusiastic about it that I registered in a few freelance websites so I could apply what I had learnt and that’s how I began.

Funny enough, I don’t have any source of inspiration. It depends very much on my mood and the weather also, there are days that I just wake up and feel inspired.

Where/how did you learn to draw?

I’m self-taught, I started when I was 2 years old. There’s not a single picture of me in which I’m not holding a pencil in one hand and a colouring book in the other. My grandma and my mom used to buy me crayons and brushes and that was all I needed to be happy.

I kept on drawing and then when I was 15 I created an account on DeviantArt and started following some great artists I found. I learnt through tutorials that those people I admired uploaded, and the rest was all hard work and daily practice.

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From your pictures we can feel your love for movies and music, how do they influence your work?

Usually I take ideas out of them. There are songs and films that have an impact on me in many ways, so I try to analyse that and represent that specific feeling or sensation that I get from listening/watching them in a drawing. I find this a pretty useful artistic exercise.

Which are your instrument for drawing?

I draw with mechanical pencils, a kneaded eraser I like to use to calm my anxiety and a 3H pencil I deeply love.

Sometimes I also use coloured pencils and watercolours.

How is your relationship with the pencil?

and then I started drawing.

So far, it’s a committed and very rewarding one.

In your works there is a serie that is called “Fears” What is the fear for you?

Do you like to make Self-portraits?

I like to draw people, faces and hands particularly, sometimes I use myself because I’d like to convey a message and I don’t have any models to do that for me.

What do you think about digital technology? It destroying the analogic world or creating nostalgia and bring him back?

I think it’s great that both mediums can coexist in art, but there’s no magic like the one pencils have. There are marks that artists leave on the paper that seem to be absent on digital artworks, and I think that’s when you can really see how utterly talented someone is—when you can study their lines and the subtlety of their traces. I think that it’s only through a traditional medium that you can appreciate an artist’s particular style.

If you’d have to choose between pencil & paper or computer, what do you choose?

Definitely paper.

Who are your favorite illustrators?

I love Tran Nguyen’s work, she makes therapeutic illustrations. Her style is so unique I could immediately recognise any of her pieces. I also like Thomas Cian, T. Dylan Moore and Adara Sánchez Anguiano’s beautiful watercolours. ..and artists?

I recently discovered Meghan Howland’s work and fell madly in love with her paintings. They are so intricately beautiful and nostalgic, I wish I could communicate at least half of those emotions through my drawings.

You recently illustrated the book “Desvaríos” by Daniel Schetchel, talk us about this project.

Actually, the idea of making the book cover started as a suggestion. We met at university, and we were in class when he told me he was looking for an image to go on the cover. I thought that I’d be a good idea to make one for him. The process was pretty short, he had to print it in less than a month so I did all the job in a week. After I read his book, I had many ideas, many of which were inspired by his writing style and main themes of the stories. Having discussed them thoroughly, we arrived at a final concept

Those pieces I did for the illustration course, it was a class assignment that I really loved doing. For me, fear is a liquid substance similar to poison that intoxicates you when facing specific situations. It pollutes your mind and contaminates your thoughts if you refuse to do something about it.

Do you have any drawings that you have decide Not to publish? Will you ever publish them?

Yes, most of the times the pieces I don’t decide to make public are those that are still in an early progress or are just a concept.

What express mostly beauty?

The way in which the leaves of my lemon tree filter the sunlight and create a natural pattern on my sheets of paper when I’m drawing.

Do you sell your illustration?

I don’t sell originals as I still find it difficult to break the creator-monster kind of bond. But I do sell prints on my Etsy shop.

Do you have some project in progress?

Too many, actually. The oldest one is a series I’m preparing for a future exhibition—it’s about the relationship that exists between women and nature, and my personal perspective on that connection.

Where people can find you and your works?

I have a personal portfolio (be.net/florenciamir), a blog (florenciamir.tumblr.com) and a place where I upload work in progress shots (instagram.com/florenciamir). I also have a shop (etsy).

Do you want to say something that I don’t ask you?

Thank you for this lovely interview and thank you, dear reader, for being interested in my art.

www.be.net/florenciamir

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