La briciola squisita

  « These are Drawings with Coffee. If Modigliani had Drawings for drinks, I can also have "Drawings with coffee". Drinking coffee is my favorite ritual. Then I relax, organize, draw a little, write a little, plan…relaxed, relaxed, just relaxed… » . . Ana Djukanovic Miljkovac (@anamiljkovac_art), Drawings with coffee, 2019, felt-tip pen and ballpoint pen on paper, 25 x 20 cm . . Fronts: various text

  «T hese are pages from zine “Sazhentsy” i made in 2019, each page is A4 (210 x 297 mm). The zine is based on a selected chapter of Vladimir Sorokyn book “Norma” which is about soviet repressions. Riso Print (automatic), with silkscreen print above (manually printed), 15 zines in total. » . . Kate Zhilina (@katezhilina),  selected pages from Zine “Sazhentsy”, 2019, riso print and silkscreen, 297×420 mm 

« Mine is kind of a devotion for diaries, and it’s been like this since i used  to stick flower petals on the page borders of my primary school years.  Only during art school I learned to attach words to my drawings and  illustrations, cause before then I thought it was unnecessary; why should  I write on something that is meant to speak for it self alone? A teacher of my class always underlined the importance of adding written  informations during the sketching phase, and mostly of the time I didn’t  know what to say, sometimes maybe I faked it to write something useful. With time, while I was focusing on my artistic path, words started  emerging, about anything: shop lists, songs titles, memo ideas... Until  it became essential to me. I really need to put the tickling weight of  thoughts somewhere, before it can possibly fade, and paper is capable to keep it for me with secrecy. Handwritten words are part of me, as much  as visionary f...

« To this day - a list of products in Hebrew for purchase that has been forgotten and not realized. The list says missing: Matbucha, sunflower sprouts, lemon peppermint diet, sprite, dishwasher tablets, pitas, diabetes diet, bread, popcorn, soy cheese, paper towel, bottle like orange juice, iodine, 9 percent yellow cheese, mozzarella flakes, loaf, juice Oranges, paper towel, snow sushi for stainless steel, jam, soy milk, chocolate, diabetes, pastrami, tahini. Write but deleted and there are already: dill, yellow cheese, carrots, mozzarella and potatoes. I'll never buy it.» . . Shahar Tuchner (www.shahartuchner.com, @shahartuchner), I will never buy this again, 2021, erasable and non-erasable markers on a print of melamine, 30 x 22 cm

« I'm in the Doctors waiting room - and ideas grow and push aside pre appointment tension. Using 'Poems in the Waiting Room' as my sketchbook I jot down ideas, keeping an ear open and an eye on the buzzer board. Later I roughly colour the scribbles so as to have a vague idea what I was mentally juggling with. Some waiting room ideas are simply repeats, dragged out at times of stress - others seem new, and they can take wing. » . . John Thomson ( www.thomsonart.co.uk, @johnthomsonart), Poems in the Waiting Room, ink and pencil on paper, 20 x 20 cm

« This artwork was made during the first lockdown in Spring 2020. Nothing was making any sense, fear everywhere, the media worldwide was in panic, the world was shut down, we were upside down and lost as one humanity. And the words I wrote were about the need for a deep soul searching on all our parts - yet to come, over a year later! » . . Ramona Galardi (www.ramonagalardi.com, @ramona_galardi) ,  The Answers Lie Within, 2020, fine line marker on folded and stitched paper, 10 x 70 x 2 cm approx . . Front: THE ANSWERS LIE WITHIN . . SO DEEP WITHIN

Ursula Vargas (www.ursulavargas.com and @ursulavargas_art),  Passion roulette, 2020, ink pen on paper, 24 x 24 cm . . Front: PASSION ROULETTE . . HELP . . HUMAN condition . . childhood killers . . it's a perverts world

« Pen & paper fragment from a mathematician's study.   Looks meaningless but maybe you can decipher it. » . . Mike Clements ( www.mikeclementsartist.com and @ mikeclementsartist) , Pie,  2021, pen on paper,  c6.5 x c10.0 cm

« Made as a direct response to the call out the piece is a collage with a handwritten post-it note attached. The title,"Ladies in Waiting," is a riff upon how often ladies wait patiently for a phone call after meeting a new man. It's an urgent request! » . . Susan Plover ( www.susanplover.com) , Ladies in Waiting, 2021, collage, 21 x 29.7 cm . . Front (handwritten): Call me, please!

« '見ぬが花' (“Ignorance is bliss”) is a project consisting of 47 embroidered Polaroids which represent the 47 prefectures of Japan. The sceneries depict typical Japanese streets in residential areas. The wires are embroidered with a yellow thread, creating a spiderweb of electricity. The timeless appearance of electric pylons contrast with a world constantly overwhelmed by significant changes in term of urbanisation, technology and architecture. The embroidered wires represent the different path that is given to us and the connection that we choose - or ignore. The Polaroids have two sides: the daylight side shows the linear, unavoidable, inflexible, circle of life (birth, life, death) while the dark side depicts how unpredictable and uncertain life is. The darkest side also creates an imaginary map of constellations, an unlimited sky with endless possibilities. » . . Aurelie Crisetig (@aureliecrisetig and www.acrisetig.com),  見ぬが花 (“Ignorance is bliss”), 2020, embroidered Polaro...

  « "The Norm" was born whilst walking back from the shop carrying my shopping. My weekly local shop and the walk home provide me with good food, social life, culture and exercise. I know this might not be normal. Normal modern life might denote a quick dash to a shop after a long day at work, then off to the gym and maybe a drive to somewhere remote. There were so many societal concepts to unpick just within that one set of differences but how to express that? Cartoon strips have not been my natural art form but it seemed like the most efficient way to tell this story and encourage thought on various norms. My art work often takes fairly contentious or difficult issues and veils them in less daunting forms. Through this people will approach and are embroiled in the discursive and conceptual elements of a piece before they realise its tricky subject. Then I find conversation of a deep nature often occurs with less blocks and insecurities...

« I riflessi di luce guizzano sulla bambina, si riflettono sul suo viso, nei suoi occhi e sull’alluminio stropicciato su cui è dipinto un qr code, un codice che come un ponte collega il supporto pittorico a dispositivi digitali. La decodifica svela la parola latina “reflexus”, come un monito a non dimenticare le origini della comunicazione moderna. » . . Luisa Valenzano (@luisavalenzano), Reflexus, 2020, acrylic on cotton canvas, 36 x 20 x 3 cm . . Front: qr code

First image: Pippa Martins (https://pippamartins.myportfolio.com/), Untitled, 2014, pen on paper, 13.5 x 13 cm Second image: Pippa Martins (https://pippamartins.myportfolio.com/), Untitled, 2015, marker on paper, 12 x 16.5 cm Third image: Pippa Martins (https://pippamartins.myportfolio.com/), Untitled, 2019, pen and marker on paper, 10.5 x 15 cm Fourth image: Pippa Martins (https://pippamartins.myportfolio.com/), Untitled, 2019, pen on paper, 11.5 x 16 cm . . Front of all images: various text

« The work was completed with 2020-2021, I recorded my secrets, pains and sorrows during my lockdown in London, UK in a strange and abstract form, so I invented words that only I could read and wrote 15 of my experiences and stories on a bookmark I made and dropped my work in anonymous and randomly chosen different locations in London, UK. The front of the bookmark has a photograph of the most important part of my memory and the back has my text, and the two are combined using needle and thread stitching. » . . Jiali Mai (@jmai_photo), Secret Fragments, 2020-2021, paper, sewing, pictures and text, 3 x 7 cm/each . . back: various text

  Alkistis Voulgari (https://alkistisvoulgari.weebly.com/), Iris, 2021, digital photography with poetry, 1920 x 1920 pixels . . Front: Iris Perfume surrounds the air I drive for a life blissful and fair The child in me still plays with fire Your love always takes me higher Misty thoughts Silent wind Madly obsessed with the colour green I dance with the shadows around My spirit cannot touch the ground

« ‘Why I?’ as a singular question, denotes multiple perspectives. For most, it is about ‘Why I?’ have to go through this/ ‘Why’ life has been unfair to me. But to the contrary, if we start asking, ‘Why I am not strong enough to overcome obstacles?’. It takes a lot of courage, but one can find a way. If the ‘Why’ here, is replaced by ‘How’ the pessimist attitude transforms to the optimist. As a text it is just about interchanging words, but in life the change brings a positive comparative difference. » . . Payal Chakraborty (@payal.chakraborty.banerjee and lifeafullcircle.home.blog),  ‘Why I ?’, 2021, pen and ink on paper, 6x8.5 inches . . Front: Why I? {repeated} <question mark>

Giovan Battista Rizzardo (https://www.facebook.com/Giovan-Battista-Rizzardo-102189841935319), Oceano, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 cm . . This is the text that accompanies the painting in the Facebook post: Io sono una nave che naviga in un oceano tempestoso, pieno di emozioni che emergono e si immergono, nei meandri di profondità talvolta abissali, coi loro colori sgargianti, il loro mistero, la loro varietà.

« I wanted to remember how it is to feel torn and whole at the same time. Strong and powerless. Alone, together. Miserable and poetic.» . . Sonia Secchi (@ssoniablu), Notes on a broken heart, 2021, collage (watercolor and pen on paper) and pen on paper, 21 x 26 cm . . Front, second page: I wish this pain could resonate like a crystal glass your broken love notes - my broken heart.

《As a conceptual idea based artist, I have found that writing down ideas help me contextualise it. I have been thinking about sound in relations to size, but my work more generally deals with language in relation to how it forms or experience of the everyday world. Here I am conjuring up a new idea that sometime will transform into a video. It only exist on a post-it note currently.》 . . Sanna Sønstebø (@sa.snart), The word, 2020, gel pen on paper, 7.6 x 7.6 cm . . Front: As you zoom in, the word comes faster. It is louder. There is only the word.

« L'œuvre est une sorte de livre qui fait le pont entre le monde des vivants et des morts.» . . Sophie Lavigne (@sofilavigne), Lettre à ma mère, 2020, (the images, inkjet printed, are taken from her sketchbooks and they are made of graphite pencil on kraft paper) leporello folded with hemp paper Ginwashi awagami, acetate, and paper thread wrapped in a silk ribbon, book: 5 x 50 cm, open and 5 x 5 cm closed; thread: 5 x 200 cm . . <various text>