Features and Press

Just thought I'd post some sites/events/publications that have featured my work :3
There's too much depressing posts on my blog! sorry you had read about me whining. I swear I'll post some happier thoughts!

The New Fwd

I didnt notice they wrote about me till months later XD, nonetheless it's super exciting to be featured!

http://www.thenewfwd.com/fwd-arts/blending-digital-art-and-photography

 

Shadowness Daily features and inspirations

There's soooo many talented people in this community! It's a real honour they would find my stuff inspiring.


http://shadowness.com/dailyinspiration/forum/daily-inspiration-970
http://shadowness.com/dailyinspiration/forum/daily-inspiration-965
http://shadowness.com/dailyinspiration/forum/daily-inspiration-1128
http://shadowness.com/dailyinspiration/forum/daily-inspiration-1131
http://shadowness.com/SurrealMinds/forum/surrealism-in-shadowness-12

Black Market

Black market is an art/fashion/music platform, they host events every 2months. My works are on display there!

https://www.facebook.com/blacksheepbaaa

WWU Photography

Mini shoutout to my Double Exposure works!

http://wwuphoto.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/rachel-mantiri-double-exposures/

Homeless Longitude

A local zine that I always come across in Bali! It was the first time I've ever submitted my works to be printed. Self-esteem is a pain to manage, But I still remember how the owners told me not to be shy about my work. :) 

http://homelesslongitude.com/?p=1074
 

FAUVE Magazine

This is possibly the most in-depth interview I've ever done... huge thanks to Jul for featuring & making me stay up many nights writing this! lol. But really, I cant do interviews, or anything that requires me to talk about myself with so much detail... excuse me while I retreat into my cave away from the sunlight.

http://issuu.com/fauvemagazine/docs/fauve21online

full interview can be read under the cut :3

MOODSCAPE

A while back I had an offer to print an artbook in order to promote a newly opened printing service. They requested 152 pages of artworks, which is pretty much gave me a heart-breaking revelation: That I dont have 152 pages worth of artworks!!!!

What the heck was I doing all these years? Have I been slaving to clients that I dont even have enough artworks I could proudly present as "my own"?

Tragic.

So I ended up in a situation where I will do nothing else but create! My deadline to submit "152" pages was in 3 days since my offer... Sounds impossible but It had to be done for my sanity's sake.

Fortunately for me I got another 2 days extension to work things out... I had to keep churning out new artworks and expanding on some old ones within the short timeframe. 3/5 days I kept wanting to give up, but thankfully I've gotten a lotta push and support from the people around me.

In the end, having to create 20 new pieces in 5 days is ridiculous... So eventually I negotiated to reduce my page count to around 96.

Voila! I have my very own artbook! with plenty of new works to upload on this blog :)

here's the cover artwork

Best of both worlds?

I've put myself in an interesting position right now...

Last year beginning of 2012 I decided to try out the "fully freelance" work style. After working for years in an environment of talentless egos battling hard to publish their mediocre ideas, I was sick of it all! The bosses, the offices, the cliques and the politics. I wanted to rid myself of all that and keep things simple...

Probably the worst motivation ever to be self-employed, as much as i like the absence of others (with exception of my clients) the work load just got so much more complicating. No longer am I the free-spirited designer that can draw something "pretty" get paid and leave. I've started taking on the roles of a sales, marketing, management, etc... all those miscellaneous work that drain me of my energy to actually CREATE ART!

Fact is I'm introverted. Communication takes more effort for me than any usual person. But I HAVE to communicate. Its ridiculous that the longer I continued my "freelance" the less I felt "free" and slowly enough I've started to miss the days of sitting pretty in an office, reading Clients From Hell while waiting for someone to give me work.

Well 2013 has blessed me with the best of both worlds... a deal that keeps me alternating between a "full time" schedule in Singapore for two weeks and a "freelance" life in Bali for the next two weeks. I guess I can switch back and forth between a hectic city life to a relaxed island life. Sounds tiring but I'm excited to see how this goes...

Anyways enough blabber here's a Geometric graphic piece that I plan to print into a shirt!

Cheers!