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MARIA OLIVARES ALFARO
http://mariaolivaresalfaro.tumblr.com/
3. Do you prefer salt or sugar?
Sugar! It would be fantastic to live in a little sweet house as in my favorite tale “Hansel and Grettel”.
16. Your favorite track ever?
Something by The Beatles
17. Your favorite word?
Random
CHRISTINA TONGES
2. Who is your favorite animal?
I have a complicated relationship with coyotes. Here in the hills of eastern Los Angeles they have completely adapted to live alongside humans, feeding on our garbage and pets. I admire their cunning and ability to remain unseen until their eerie echoing cries fill the night and cannot be ignored. They remind me that there is a wildness here beneath the traffic and smog and still beasts to fear in the night. The coyotes make me feel both lonely and connected to something larger when I hear one voice crying out for the rest of the pack.
6. If you’d have not been an artist, what else would you have been?
At an early age I wanted to be a secretary because I love office supplies, fresh pens and pencils, binders, sticky notes… sigh. I’ve always loved science but been terrible with math, I thought genetic counseling would be a good compromise but then I realized I really just liked drawing the elaborate pedigrees. I’m still fascinated by archeology especially Neandertals and prehistoric cave painting and devour any and all writings on the subject.
8. Your favorite color while working?
Payne’s Gray with varying amounts of white mixed in to make those cool blue grays.
Michael Caunt. Girl with Red Hair.
CENDRINE ROVINI
http://cargocollective.com/cendrinerovini
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cendreruines/
6. If you’d have not been an artist, what else would you have been?
I would have been a sharpshooter.
7. Your strongest experience?
I heard the song of the Sun in the depths of the ocean.
11. Do you think about your retirement?
I never really think about it, as I want to keep working my whole life, even as a very old person, if I am not becoming blind and still have my two hands working (and not trembling too much !).
KIMI PRYOR
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimipryor/
13. Your favorite meal?
I am a big soup fan, so it would be a three-way tie between my mom’s zucchini soup, my boyfriend’s borscht, and the ramen at Santouka in Los Angeles.
22. Do you have any ritual before beginning your work?
Before I sit down, I need a fresh cup of coffee (or tea, or tea with whiskey and honey and lemon in it), clean water for my brushes and a fairly clean desktop. A messy desktop stresses me out, at least when I am just beginning to work. Also a good playlist or record on (see below). I work in my apartment, so the dishes have to also be clean, otherwise I am completely thrown off.
23. Do you need music for working and which music do you love?
Yes, I always work to music, I make specific playlists to draw to. If I listen to too many sad songs in a row while working I get angsty and have to put on a ton of pop. I love a broad range of music but lately I’ve been listening to a lot of Peter Broderick, Tom Waits, Grimes, Ida, The Cave Singers, Damien Rice, and John Maus. Just discovered The Unthanks, which was a great find to paint to … They sing a lot of haunting and tragic English folk songs. Also, Paul Simon and Silvio Rodriguez are usually on rotation.
NADIA TAHOUN
24. What/who inspires you?
Mostly literature, music, and the people I surround myself with inspire my work. Photographically, I really love the work of Alec Soth, Wim Wenders, Shirin Neshat, and Andrew B Myers.
10. Do you have dreams still to realize?
I’m only nineteen. I’ve got a lot of ideas.
21. Which is your favorite moment in the day, and why?
So far I’ve lived in Miami and New York City and both in my opinion are much better in the night. I really love city lights and the culture that comes with it.
(Source: milubjorn)
MARTHA VERSCHAFFEL
www.marthaverschaffel.blogspot.com / www.flickr.com/marthaverschaffel
3. Do you prefer salt or sugar?
I can eat spoonfuls of salt.
9. Do you sleep well?
I’m a restless sleeper. I wake up often from bad dreams, and can’t fall asleep again. But those nightmares are a huge inspiration for all of my drawings, so in a certain way my bad nights are also very useful for me.
23. Do you need music for working and which music do you love?
Joanna Newsom, Bob Dylan, Bill Callahan, Wire, Kim Hiorthoy, Talking Heads, Can, Robert Wyatt, Digable Planets, Erik Satie and many more. I like playing the same record over and over again.
(Source: red-soles, via voyeurreveur)
