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After a while I just did pure handmade collages, I needed to build confidence in my own abilities. The process of cutting things up, using my hands was something that I missed without knowing it. His works have been published in various art books and magazines. Redirecting his artistic expression towards collage as a means to start a new chapter of his life, his current works are inspired by his personal life and the exploration of his inner landscape through vivid shapes, high fashion imagery, and raw markings. Vicenzi emphasizes that working with or without a compass can yield a worthwhile creative payoff, but a true artist is laid bare in the most minute of details either way. I just know you fell in love with Raphael’s illustrations, so you probably want to see more! Here is where you can reach him: The way I combine my personal interests and tastes like fashion editorials, awkward graffitis, broken images and busy layering.

As an illustrator, the most difficult thing for me is to be inspired by something I can’t really relate to. Trying to express certain ideas without being able to make them more personal is really difficult sometimes. that’s just the way I work though. The theme is of course fashion which in a sense is why the picture is of a girl as you would normal asume with in fashion. With the title I really think it gives ain-depthmeaning to the piece, as if you just had the image with no title a lot of people would just asume its a random image and has no meaning, so in away with this piece the title is really important to the piece as it gives the piece a meaning, which is of course the girl looking into a mirror and saying how she see's her self as a wolf, and this gives the view many different meanings behind the work which is great as people can say the work is more in-depth. The subject behind this I think is story based and in away the artist has become a story writer to the views who view the work, so for example I see this as a girl who see's her self as a beast and not very pretty in away and sort ofdoesn'tsee her life with much meaning, this is great to see in work these days as anyone can come up with a story behind this work and it would make sense. I think the artist has really foundinspiration from the film snow white, as it has a mirror and a woman a bit like the queen from snow white who is jealous of not being theprettiestin the landand goes to the mirror to ask who is the prettest in the land and the mirror says not you of course and maybe this is what piece is about in a way. Always hoping to find unseen connections between elements, teetering on total randomness and controlled impulses, rewriting possibilities through happy accidents and instinctual markings. At first I just did digital collages, with my own textures and scans from magazines, always with a strong handmade analog flavour but I wasn”t ready to live without an undo button yet. Around ten years ago but it has only been these last few years that i can consider myself doing something that i really like.x8.3″; acid-free paper, images cut from magazines, Posca markers; 2023 I WANT TO FEEL LIKE TUNGUSKA AGAIN

x8.3″; acid-free paper, images cut from magazines, Posca markers; 2023 YOU GET VOLCANOES I GET EMPTY PARKING LOTS In the context of illustration, collage is popularly used as a technique in children’s picture books, magazines, and other print and digital media. Last year he published a book of his work called LIVING WITH: My Dead Pony . The book features 32 of his most stunning artworks and has perforation along the spine, making each one removable for framing.Well I live a pretty boring life but I like it. I wake up early and after a while I start to work on commissions or personal illustrations. I am constantly working, even if I am not on the computer, my mind is geared towards finding a new idea or seeing colours and patterns everywhere. All of them, they're all little pieces of me at certain point in time. My latest works are closer to what I think nowadays. It’s not something I can intellectualise too much but there is always a tension between happy accidents, randomness, composition and intentional creation. In your experience, what were the moments that you have struggled or had difficulty in coming up with a concept? How did you overcome/cope? Sometimes I am inspired by a ripped up graphic poster I saw on the street, sometimes it’s an impression of an indefinite nature, or a phrase that pops up in my mind and does not let go.

TWS –I see a tension between contemporary and classic in your art. Contemporary images are processed with a collage technique that seems close to Dada and other early collage provocateurs. How do you feel connected to collage’s history and where do you think your work stands in this tradition? Free time it’s all I have, it’s just that as a freelance I chose to spend this time working on illustrations or looking for inspiration. I work more when I have a client project but it’s difficult to separate my free time and work time as they seem to blend together all the time. I never really trusted in my abilities until I had some few positive comments about my works posted on DeviantArt. Raphael says his art is mainly inspired by ‘ life, art, fashion, collage, street art, graphic design, loud music… ‘ I more or less settled into redrawing things and started to get some editorial jobs out of the blue.

Looking a bit into the future, how do you think people will look at your designs in four years from now?