MAKE MY BIRTHDAY

ISSUE 2

All Images © 2012 Dante McCoywww.studiofireworks.com

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MAKE MY BIRTHDAY is an online and offline Zine which focuses on one emerging artist per issue, making a space for young artists to share their work and for readers to discover exciting contemporary

art.

Edited by Ariel Cameronarielcameron.com

For more information or if you would like to submit work email info@arielcameron.com

WHAT IS YOUR PRACTICE? Visual arts: Photography (architecture, portrait, fashion), Film Making, Drawing, Painting, Digital Art.

WHO INSPIRES YOUR PRACTICE? Many, but photographer Rene Asmussen is the one who influences my style the most. Also photographer Drew Gardner and the renaissance poet Dante Alighieri (My GOD). And those crazy people from DeviantArt!! GOD DAMN IT! They are damn unbelievable!!!

WHAT YOUR WORK IS ABOUT? Life is beautiful, I saw all those beautiful and crazy scenes, but they suddenly disappear…Like fireworks…I want to keep them, I want to create them. Even if there is no deep meaning - you know you will be in love with all those beautiful things, and hope it can be eternal!!But without the inner heat, life just gets colder, that’s why I also try to make the scenes more powerful, EPIC! Yes, they are fireworks—Half flower, half fire.

Dante McCoy

TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOURSELF AND STUDYING IN BRISBANE: I love QCA (Queensland College of Arts), I’ve met so many many great people from photography, Fine Art, Design. I learn such a lot from them, and I’m a person who, if I want something, I’m going to “GO” for it, but i’ll “RUN” for it! Yes, by running!!!

I want to be a person who can control so many things from the different art areas, and I can not see the “boundary”, if there is love, there is no “boundary”. I LOVE ART!

No one believes me, but the truth is: I’m the last remaining vampire, Syberia is my motherland, “I was created by the might divine, the highest wisdom and the primal love.”

I believe wisdom, knowledge and love. I love sunflowers, camellias, guns and Katana. I don’t know how to have fun…

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