YUCCA art magazine issue #5
“Everything you can imagine is real.” Pablo Picasso
To the reader: The Last Dino It was a cold but beautiful day. The sun was just beginning to climb in the sky. The fireplace was slowly warming the cabin, the teapot chirping happily alongside it, a trickle of steam emanating from it. I stepped out onto the deck. Looks like the entire mountain will be mine today. This is expected though, given I’m in the middle of an Ice Age. Damn. I’m running out of coffee. Well, I guess being out of coffee is better than being dead. Better than all of my relatives being dead. Better than all of my friends being dead. Almost everything is better than being dead, but if you let everything being dead get under your skin, then what’s the point of being alive? I found a few leftover scoops of coffee from yesterday, into the pot it goes. It’s not great, but it’s better than Grawlbacks. Those are all dead too, by the way. The snow is beautiful today, small, unique crystals reflecting the sun and throwing rainbows through the air. An hour later I was on the top of the mountain. Snow covered the land as far as I could see, except for a few splotches of black where a forest used to stand. That would soon be my fire wood supply depot. I strapped my skis onto my feet, one of my poles was broken, but it would do. I jumped up and flew down the hill. A few new snow dunes had appeared overnight, fresh powder coated everything. Ah, the beauty of being first on the slopes. I pointed myself towards a particularly promising dune, hit the peak, and flew into the air. For a split second, time stopped. I closed my eyes and saw all of my friends, my family. Everyone I had ever known, dead. I opened my eyes. At least I’m alive! by Zan Gato
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Andrea Wan
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Matthew Griffin
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Donough O’Malley
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Owen Gent
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Thomas Campi / Nocturne Series
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Oleksii Nosenko / My Body Is a Cage
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Katerina Grishekina
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Slava Nesterov
Andrea wan www.andreawan.com
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Working mostly with ink on paper, Andrea Wan sees her work as a visual journal that reflects her thoughts and experiences. Her drawings combine traditional narrative aesthetics with eerie and surrealist qualities, depicting a world with great sensibility. Andrea finds inspiration by looking outwards to observe her surroundings such as people and places, and looking introspectively into the obscure corners of her subconscious. She believes that our internal and external worlds simultaneously influences and reflects one another, communicating using clues and metaphors, our subconscious dropping hints into our waking life, causing moments of synchronicity. Her new series, Mirror Mirror, explores the dialog between these two coexisting realms with curiosity. (c) www.andreawan.com / blog
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Mirror Mirror
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Mirror Mirror
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Night Travellers
Exploding Heads
Matthew Gr iffin www.matthewjgriffin.com
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Matthew Griffin is an award-winning Irish illustrator & graphic artist based in Ennis, Co.Clare. Having worked with major brands across publishing, editorial, advertising and design, Matthew
has garnered an international reputation as an innovative and distinctive visual artist. He is also an author, with his debut novel ‘A Cage of Roots’ (The O’Brien Press) set for release in March 2015.
Donough O'Malley www.pencilrobot.net
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Donough is an award winning
He has worked for clients in the
Illustrator who has worked for clients
U.S.A. as well as Ireland and the
such as the BBC, Jameson’s Whiskey,
U.K. and his work has appeared
Random House, Management Today
in the A.O.I’s Images annual,
magazine, New Internationalist,
Communication Arts, Latin American
Runners World, Estates Gazette,
Illustration 3, Creative Quarterly,
Haymarket Publishing, Prospects
Juxtapoz and the 3X3 International
magazine, Wine Republic magazine,
directory. He has also taken part in
Sony Playstation, Frances Lincoln
exhibitions in the UK, Ireland, Austria,
Publishing and Orchard Publishing.
Belgium and Italy.
His first children’s picture book ‘Monkey See Money Do’ was
His flexibility in mediums
shortlisted for the Cambridge Picture
both traditional and digital means
books award and he has won the
his work is used in a wide variety of
Scottish Book Trust Award with
areas such as editorial, advertising,
author Jonathan Meres.
fiction and children’s picture books.
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Owen Gent www.owengent.com
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Editorial illustration for issue 20 of Oh Comely Magazine
Owen Gent is an Illustrator and Designer currently based in Bristol in the South West of England. Graduating with a first class honours degree from Falmouth University in 2013, Owen was also given the ‘outstanding achievement in Illustration’ award for that year. Since then Owen has continued to work as a freelance artist and is currently based in a cosy studio in the heart of Bristol. As well as his own work, Owen collaborates, exhibits and publishes work with the Beginning Middle End collective, which he co-founded in 2012. He is also represented by the No Guts No Glory design agency. www.owengent.com / about
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SIREN Designed primarily to be exhibited in a gallery setting, Siren is a multi- directional narrative series of illustrations, telling the story of two men, ages apart, being lured to the same fate.
SIREN
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LA PESTE MAGAZINE Cover Illustration for issue 13 of La Peste Magazine, based on the theme Fury.
He walked through countless seasons, never still, never sleeping, always searching, until he could lay down, with the one he’d layed with before
FANTASMAS A Series of illustration for ‘Fantasma’, a book about ghosts published by the wonderful Verano del Cohete
Thomas Camp i nocturne series
thomascampi.com
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Nocturne is some of the drawings i make in the night time, just before going to sleep. They free my mind and help me relax. It is a collection of sketches, illustrations, paintings that go through different genres, from romantic subjects to surreal situations and characters. Thomas Campi
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Photo: Oleksii Nosenko Style: Misha Kadinski MUA: Rita Skomrova Hair: Sasha Treshchilova Model: Yuka Taan
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kater ina gr ishek ina www.glediska.kiev.ua
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photo: Grishekina Katerina mua: Arina Barakova style: Alla Maslennikova model: Alena Andreeva
Slava Nesterov www.behance.net/slavatriptih
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The Birth Of Paranoia
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