Exciting news!
My E C H O E S images have been accepted into the INVISIBLE ATLAS edition of FITA MAGAZINE.
FITA Magazine is an international published art magazine that communicates artistic research from all disciplines. The gondola departs on FITA Magazine's first trip through the artistic and cultural canals of the world, leaving empty seats for those reading these pages. You can sit back and enjoy the view of this journey. The person who gave us the coordinates for this epic was Marco Polo, through the imaginative words he proffered in The Invisible Cities, written by the famous Italo Calvino. There, Venice assumes the role of the eternal and unique city, a bastion of imagination and creativity, a place without borders, just as art should be. As Calvino writes in the same book: “the shortest distance between two points is not the straight line but a zigzag.”
Friends In The Arts is a mirror of these teachings, connecting people from around the world in the search for jobs in arts and culture, blurring borders through talent. The platform was conceived in the canals of Venice and created in the streets of Lisbon, under the morning call of the gondoliers and the late night rebel fado. FITA Magazine is the place to showcase these qualities and mastery, so that everyone feels represented.
It’s an impressive 160 pages of International Artists, Writers, Photographers, Poetry.
I’ve been asked “How did you get in?”
I discovered FITA on LinkedIn and they had a call for submissions!
I submitted my E C H O E S project and was accepted.
Article: Echoes is a collection of photographs of the landscapes and wildlife of the Oklahoma Wichita Mountains. While in the winter driving and looking at a field of pale gold where the tall grasses had died and only a handful of contrasting trees with their dark bark and bare leaves, Reginna started thinking how one day in the future there may only be symbolic art sculptures reminding us of what was once…ECHOES.
This series combines the realism of the landscapes with the abstract forms to represent the echoes of the living art that once was or is currently threatened: a bison, a bird, a turtle. The artist imagines a time when all that is left of the wildlife will be their echo. The construction and deconstruction of the abstract animal forms bring attention to the dwindling biodiversity. The strong geometric shapes of the forms contrast with the natural landscapes and feel foreign and yet represent all animals that are disappearing from the environment.
To inquire about prints or to learn more about the other ECHOES series Art please contact reginnazhidov@gmail.com