In conversation with .. 8!
Welcome to our new digital issue: IN CONVERSATION WITH – Part 8! Featuring with Aka Kelzz, Jaume Miró, José Rojas, Wooly and the Uke, Ford Kelly, Olli Hull. Special thanks to Orientation NYC. 118 pages filled with interviews and editorials. Contributors are Lewis Robert Cameron, Johannes Brauner, Arabella Romen, Rianon Vran, Joseph Sy, Arron Dunworth, Alis, McGuire Brown and more. Enjoy our new issue! Feat. @akakelzzmusic @akakelzz @jaumevmiro @jose_illustration @woolyandtheuke @SoyFordKelly @ollihull On the cover Creative Direction & Styling McGuire Brown @mcguire.brown Photographer & Editor Abby Lorenzini @abilorenzini Lighting Assistance Joe DaJour @joedajour Assistance Jane Handorff @jhandorff & Samantha Del Rosal @samanthadelrosal Model Kayinoluwa Ibidapo @kayinoluwa Makeup Tania Mallah @tatimallah Production Orientation NYC @orientationyc
Welcome to our new digital issue: IN CONVERSATION WITH – Part 8! Featuring with Aka Kelzz, Jaume Miró, José Rojas, Wooly and the Uke, Ford Kelly, Olli Hull. Special thanks to Orientation NYC. 118 pages filled with interviews and editorials. Contributors are Lewis Robert Cameron, Johannes Brauner, Arabella Romen, Rianon Vran, Joseph Sy, Arron Dunworth, Alis, McGuire Brown and more. Enjoy our new issue!
Feat. @akakelzzmusic @akakelzz @jaumevmiro @jose_illustration
@woolyandtheuke @SoyFordKelly @ollihull
On the cover
Creative Direction & Styling McGuire Brown @mcguire.brown
Photographer & Editor Abby Lorenzini @abilorenzini
Lighting Assistance Joe DaJour @joedajour
Assistance Jane Handorff @jhandorff & Samantha Del Rosal @samanthadelrosal
Model Kayinoluwa Ibidapo @kayinoluwa
Makeup Tania Mallah @tatimallah
Production Orientation NYC @orientationyc
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Let’s celebrate<br />
the spiritual<br />
and mystical,<br />
the non human,<br />
alien and cyborg<br />
<strong>In</strong> <strong>conversation</strong><br />
<strong>with</strong> Ford Kelly<br />
<strong>In</strong>terview Naikee Simoneau @naikee_simoneau<br />
Ford Kelly is an Artist using mixed media to express rage, pain, joy and feelings<br />
experienced blackness as a Black Trans queer Alien living in this world. Using an<br />
Afrofuturism frame for their digital collages, Ford Kelly is sharing a Blackness reality<br />
wrote and made by Black people and reclaiming the basic right to just be.<br />
Hi Ford, tell us a little about your creative background, when did you first start doing<br />
collages and how did you come to it?<br />
As long as I can remember I have been into art and making things. Some Children<br />
found their worlds in books and I found mine in Art and designing. I liked the idea of<br />
a being able to see the creative things I imagined come to life whether it was through<br />
drawing, making clothes or craft work. I was fascinated <strong>with</strong> how things were made. It<br />
has been the easiest way for me to express myself, find myself <strong>with</strong>in, or merely getting<br />
lost inside. Art was the most natural path I felt to take when deciding what to study. I<br />
studied Fine Art and then went on to doing visual effects work,... However a few years<br />
ago I got into more consistently working <strong>with</strong> Digital Collages <strong>with</strong>in an Afrofuturist<br />
frame.<br />
What medium/tools do you feel most comfortable <strong>with</strong> when creating your work?<br />
You could say that I’m drawn strongly to everything DIY. I don’t feel like I’m bound to<br />
one medium or one project, or even one area. I’m fascinated <strong>with</strong> many aspects of art<br />
and design and want to explore as many areas and mediums as I feel like. But currently<br />
for the collages the digital world suits me.<br />
Your illustrations refer to politics, gender, race… Do you think that as an artist it’s<br />
your duty to be engaged?<br />
I’m not sure it’s possible to create art as a Black (Trans Queer) Alien <strong>with</strong>out this<br />
coming up in the work in someway or another. I don’t have the luxury of being able to<br />
pick and choose when or how I’m seen by the outside world so these identities become<br />
quite present in my day to day life. Sometimes my rage fuels me to keep engaged<br />
sometimes my hope does the same.<br />
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