Born in the American South, Sadie Rebecca Starnes prides herself on not being a painter, but rather a narrator. Her work contains allusion to diasporic literature, as well as heavy reference to family histories of the Native Americans. Starnes took her talents to Tokyo, where she has spent the past three years creating visual narratives.
Art serves as a translation of emotion and turns internal abstracts into physical displays. Thus, artists use the product of translating their internal sentiments to express what they feel. Painter Patricia Derks follows the deeply personal approach. She loves to paint and her passion, inherited from her father and driven by the academy, Arendonk, exudes on canvas.
Read MoreLondon-based photographer Rupert Vandervell combines his interest in clean lines and geometrics to create narrative images of humans interacting with their environment. Finding humans interesting, he creates an array of photographs showing their place in the world.
Read MoreFor so many, art serves as a form of liberation, an escape from reality, a freedom of expression. For artist Samantha Wall, art is just that. Now based in Portland, Oregon, Wall is an immigrant from Seoul, South Korea. She moved to the United States at four years old. Receiving her MFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art enabled her to further her art career as she went on to be awarded the Joan Mitchell MFA Award in 2011: the year she graduated.
Read MoreEach picture displays a visible artistic narrative; the viewer can clearly see a story being told. On her flickr account, Kaletkina features a series of dark images that encourage emotion from her audience. Subjects in the shots express feelings of distress, sadness and rebellion amongst other emotions. There is heavy play on double exposure and interchangeability with black and white and vintage color.
Read MorePrince, a modern-day tale of European teen romance, captivated my attention from the start. The introductory scene provided an equal abundance of strangeness and humor. During the (approximate) 90-minute film, seventeen year old, Ayoub, journeyed through trials of acceptance from his friends, enemies, and especially his love interest, Laura, and bared the burden of a dysfunctional family, his father a junkie and mother a lonely divorcee.
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