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Beyond Esoteric Muses

“At moonset  I was born  Dawn leaned over the universe  And night’s breast  In rage tore its tunic.”  ~Malika al-Assimi   —  The women are for expansion. Sinuous, flexuous, their gentle force pervades through the motley Silk Road, at moonrise, at moonset, captured in the archaic record of the times and sealed in the arc of…

The Mind of Artist Soraya Through Illustration

Soraya is formerly one half of MZAB magazine and an artist based in Paris. These illustrations below exhibit underwater themes, repetitive motifs and intricate designs. She is the illustrator behind MZABs logo, the elusive Tuareg in a turban.

Ocean around them

I am vast, blue timeworn colossus, rolling, the green hills of Qwahu brown scars of the Nuer I can go deeper, hold it and deeper still hold, hold. In these things lie no permission, everything- is for the taking- the giving. Heirloom scattered coral, pirouette in the deep, I find language and stories of them…