VI 'True'

"There is no right time. Start now."

Next week’s post is going to be ‘Community Gallery’ celebrating the brilliant artwork of our readers here in our newletter and across our Instagram too! This is open to all artists, please send your work to email: spottedzebra@gmail.com for a chance to be featured :)

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”

Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

First Line | Sonnet 1: Loving In Truth by Sir Philip Sidney

What better to start than a poem

Sonnet 1: Loving In Truth

Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show,
That she (dear She) might take some pleasure of my pain:
Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know,
Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain;

I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe,
Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain:
Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow
Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burn'd brain.

But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay,
Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows,
And others' feet still seem'd but strangers in my way.

Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite—
"Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write."

Sir Philip Sidney

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Artist of the Week | Matthew Cawrey

Matthew Cawrey is an experimental analogue artist, exploring themes of decay, memory and intimacy by pushing the analogue medium to its technical, and chemical, limits. Their project, Decaying Memory (2022-2025) explores time, presence and loss, specifically how they interpret these emotions through a neurodiverse lens, creating this struggle to form meaningful connections to people. Through various post-process destructive techniques, Matthew is able to abstract and obscure their subjects, decaying the emulsion of the film, just like how these memories decay.

Matthew Cawrey’s - Website - Instagram

All Work featured in this section are the original works of Matthew Cawrey. All rights reserved.

“Embracing the experimental is essential for my practice. Nothing is predictable in life, so neither is my art.”

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Interview | Lefki Savvidou

Lefki Savvidou (b. 1990) is a Cypriot visual artist, illustrator, and writer. Her artistic practice is based on the study and continuous investigation of human relationships and the nuanced perceptions of life in the 21st century.

Lefki Savvidou’s - Website - Instagram

All work featured in this interview are the original works of Lefki Savvidou. All rights reserved.