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Myles Loftin-Synergy ~ Q&A

Myles Loftin - Synergy

Name: Myles Loftin

Twitter|IG: @goldenpolaroid

Age: 17

Sign: aquarius

Craft(s): photography

 

  1. When did you realize you were interested in art?

I’ve always been interested in art. Originally I wanted to draw. I remember being in elementary and middle school having 4,5, and 6 different sketchbooks filled with different little characters that I would draw. I even used to draw little watermarks on my work. It wasn’t until the summer before m 9th grade year when I went to Italy that I actually realized I was interested in photography.

  1. What Influences you and where do you get your inspiration?

I’m influenced by society, peers, fellow artists and pretty much everything I encounter on a day to day basis. I believe it’s true for the most part when people say that you are a product of your environment. I’m a product of the factors that I allow to influence me and that, I hope is seen through my work.

I get my inspiration from everywhere. If it’s something that I see and I think I could use a part of that idea in a photograph, I’ll save it and put it away for future use. I think my biggest inspiration comes from the internet as well as nature. The internet because it’s so vast and there is never a shortage of interesting source material, especially on social media networks like instagram and tumblr. Nature is another huge influence because as a visual person I am really interested in color, and the way different colors interact. So seeing how colors occur in nature serves as an inspiration for how I will incorporate color into my own works.

  1. Who are your top 5 favorite artists?

I don’t have 5 favorite artists but here are my top three (not in any particular order)

  • Jean Michel-Basquiat
  • Petra Collins
  • FKA Twigs

  1. If you could work with anyone dead or alive who would it be?

If I could work with anyone dead or alive I would work with Richard Avedon.

  1. What is your creative process?

My creative process for a lot of my self portraits starts with boredom. Usually it will be when I’m home alone, or if it’s a rainy day. I’ll be sitting around the house for hours and all of the sudden an idea will come into my head and immediately I have to create it. When I photograph people other than myself, it’s another process. I try to look at the person that I’m photographing and capture their essence within that shot. Another thing I like to do when photographing people is to tell some kind of story, or give some context to the person in the picture. It’s nice when seeing a picture to be able to imagine who that person is and what they’re like.

  1. What differentiates you from different artist?

I think that all artists are different. One thing that makes me different is that I am not trying to be something or someone that I am not. I just do what comes naturally.

  1. What impact do you wish to leave with your art?

The impact that I’d like to leave on the viewer with my art is a feeling of emotion followed by the desire to see more of my work.

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Dexter R. Jones – ENVY

Dexter R. Jones - ENVY
Dexter R. Jones - ENVY

Dexter R. Jones is an extremely rare talent his skills behind the lens are breath-taking and his aesthetic eye never ceases to impress. He is also a very profound individual; his latest project ENVY has been described as “a highly sought-after, beautifully melinated, dismembered head surrounded by a loud inescapably hot aura. According to Mr. Jones “We are their Envy – and because of that deadly sin, we have been stripped and broken down to bare minimums.”

This summer, Dex. R Jones seeks to share this body of work in his first solo gallery show entitled “Coloreds Only”.  Help him achieve this goal by contributing financially and/or by helping spread the word. View his pitch video below and find full details on his campaign at envyoftheworld.com .

Check out some of the photographs from his shoot with models May Daniels & Tiffay Kelly below & find more of Mr. Jones’ work here.

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Tafari- Its My World ~ Q&A

Tafari - It's My World

Name: Saadiq Tafari

Twitter|IG : _tafari_ | _tafariii_

Age: 18

Sign: Libra

Craft: Painting, Graphic Design, Sculpture

 

1. When did you realize you were interested in art?
As a kid I was always pretty proficient at drawing, I made a dollar for selling dragon ball-z drawings in 2nd grade. My art teachers in my junior and senior year in high school encouraged me to take art seriously after they saw my “talent.”
2. What influences you and where do you get your inspiration?
My little brothers are pretty cool, they’re twins and I’ve carefully watched them grow to be better than I. That growth is so awesome, my art right now is all about growth. inevitably i get inspiration from music, and movies. but most of my inspiration comes from whatever emotional state I’m in.
3. Who are your top 5 favorite artists?
Miya Bailey, Paper Frank, Mike Rubendall, Nightmare Mikey, Shelby&Sandy.. no order, I try to stay clear of following the “regulars” that people follow, like George Condo and Basquiat, I don’t want my style to be influenced by them, I see it too much.
4. If you could work with anyone dead or alive who would it be?
Miya Bailey
5. What is your creative process?
Im really weird about this question, I don’t really have any set process as I just want to grow, and growth requires change. I do like to clean up my surroundings and get good thinking space before anything tho. I also work on multiple projects at the same time so that keeps up the random order of things.
6. What differentiates you from different artists?
For one, what i want out of art. i find a lot of creatives have little confidence in how far they can go due to the nature of being an artist. I made my dreams my goals, I don’t want to settle for a job where i get a check twice a month. thats not me. for two, I don’t put myself in a box labeled “style”. I find a lot of creatives get the whole “style” thing twisted. to me its about HOW you paint, I find that others think its WHAT you paint, they do the same thing over and over hoping people will forever love it and trace it back to them. its cool though
7. What impact do you wish to leave with your art?

First, I want the idea of the “starving artist” to vanish. i want to inspire younger creatives to chase their ideas and make a living out of what they love. Tired of this notion that no artist can ever make the money they desire. I also just want everyone to enjoy my golden ideas and my train of thought. i want my art to be relatable, but I don’t want to produce art for the purpose of relating to others. Its my art, people invest in me when they buy my work, if you just looking for something to relate to, why not just print something off the internet, for free?