Illustration

Echoes of Place and Feeling: The Art of Ida Shaghoian. AI-Generated.
Painting can be many things at once: a record of what the eye sees, a trace of what the heart remembers, and a mirror for the inner life of the viewer. In the work of Ida Shaghoian, landscape becomes a vessel for emotion rather than a literal description of terrain. Her paintings feel suspended between recognition and reverie, offering spaces that suggest hills, water, and sky while remaining open enough to hold personal meaning. What emerges is a body of work that invites contemplation, asking viewers not simply to look, but to feel.
By Ida Shaghoian24 days ago in Art
The Day I Learned to Stay
For a long time, I treated myself like someone temporary. Someone I could abandon when things got hard. I chased approval, borrowed validation, and measured my worth by how well I was loved by others.
By Epaphras25 days ago in Art
The Diverse Styles of Graffiti Art: From Tags to Murals. AI-Generated.
Street art may seem like a typical spray-painted wall. Nevertheless, it is actually a colourful expression of rebellion created by urban youth and infused with culture, self-identity, and social message. Originally founded in the underground punk rock scene of New York City in the 1970's, this urban medium has grown to become a worldwide art movement used to decorate the barren landscape of concrete. Graffiti has also developed through a variety of artistic styles. Different styles of graffiti reflect the artist's own individual expression, level of skill, and purpose of the message, having influenced fashion, advertising, and fine art. This article will examine the global evolution of graffiti and highlight the variety of graffiti artistic styles that continue to change the face of the urban environment, testing all views of art in general.
By xJRLNx26 days ago in Art
The Paintings of Bouchra Belghali
By Brian D’Ambrosio To stand before a painting by Bouchra Belghali is to experience something closer to listening than looking. It unfolds the way music does—not by telling a story or depicting a recognizable scene, but by setting color into motion, allowing it to vibrate, collide and resolve into feeling. Like a melody unburdened by lyrics, it bypasses explanation and goes straight to sensation.
By Brian D'Ambrosio 26 days ago in Art
Actor Andreas Szakacs on AI Cinema as Szakacs Films Prepares Echoes of Tomorrow for May 2026
Szakacs Films is stepping further onto the international stage with the announcement of several new global projects, led by the upcoming feature film Echoes of Tomorrow, currently targeting a May 2026 release. The announcement reflects a broader creative shift for the company, signaling a deliberate move toward future-focused storytelling that engages with emerging technologies and contemporary cultural questions.
By Andreas Szakacs28 days ago in Art
The Ones Who Stay
True friendship isn’t loud or polished. It doesn’t come with fireworks or rehearsed vows. It shows up quietly, in worn sneakers
By Mahmoud Ahmed about a month ago in Art
Essence, Embodiment, and Relational Reality
The Failure of Reduction and the Need for Synthesis There is a persistent failure in many modern attempts to explain what a human being is. Some frameworks reduce the person entirely to matter, insisting that identity, consciousness, morality, and meaning are nothing more than emergent properties of physical processes. Other frameworks move in the opposite direction, detaching spirit from reason and grounding belief in intuition alone, often at the cost of coherence or accountability. Both approaches fail because both misunderstand essence. One denies that essence exists at all. The other treats it as something vague and undefinable.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout a month ago in Art
Essence Explained
This article is a plain-language companion to “Essence, Embodiment, and Relational Reality: Toward a Coherent Account of Personhood, Consciousness, and Being.”
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout a month ago in Art
Two Truths and a Love
--- God is. God was. God always will be. God speaks. God creates. God is not silent. The Father is not an idea. The Son is not a metaphor.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout a month ago in Art
The Legal Writer’s Guide: How to Get Started in Graffiti Without Catching a Case. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
Alright, listen up. You got the itch. Your handstyle’s finally looking decent, your black book’s filling up, and you want to paint something larger than a dumpster. Just be smart enough not to catch a case before you get real good at it.
By xJRLNxabout a month ago in Art
Renee Nicole Good: The Tragic Story, the Questions, and the Human Life Behind the Headlines
In recent weeks, the name Renee Nicole Good has drawn increasing attention across search engines and social platforms. Questions such as “Renee Nicole Good shooting,” “Renee Nicole Good GoFundMe,” “Renee Nicole Good husband,” and “Renee Nicole Good children” reflect a growing public desire to understand not just an incident, but the life of the woman at the center of it.
By Sen Sab2 months ago in Art
The Crossroads of Becoming
I found it by accident. Tucked between a laundromat and a shuttered bookstore, half-hidden by ivy and time, stood a rusted phone booth. Not the sleek glass kind from movies, but an old metal one—peeling paint, cracked receiver, a dial so stiff it groaned when turned. No one had used it in years. Probably decades.
By KAMRAN AHMAD2 months ago in Art