THE MAGAZINE
Guest Artist: Danya Adriana, 17, Malaysia
Seventeen-year-old Malaysian painter Danya Adriana turns heritage, architecture, and city life into bold abstract worlds. Read on to see Malaysia through her eyes.
Guest Artist: Long YuJun, Tokyo University of the Arts
Guest artist Long YuJun explores gender and sexual diversity through a deeply personal, emotional lens, using texture, fragment, and colour to question fixed identity. Read on.
Guest Artist: Mikako Ohmatsu, Tokyo University of the Arts
Guest artist Mikako Ohmatsu treats memory as a luxury material: fragile, elusive, and always on the verge of dissolving. Through faded photographs, translucent skins, and locket-sized relics, she constructs quiet, intimate worlds where the past flickers in and out of view. Read on.
Guest Artist: Kazuto Muraki, Tokyo University of the Arts
Contemplate the tension between external perception and inner selfhood through the work of Kazuto Muraki, a Tokyo University of the Arts painter whose still, grain-textured images explore the fragile border between memory and identity.