luka_aesthetics, gold in the fingers

1. Hello! tell me about yourself and your background.

So, to begin with, I was always categorized as an artist by my family simply because I was the kid who didn't work too much in class, never concretely, and who spent his time drawing everywhere, on his notebooks, his tables, such walls and other things not intended for drawing and painting. And then I continued in this area a bit of drawing and art throughout my schooling, I was often the only one who knew how to draw things, I liked it, knowing that I had no trust me, it made me look a little cooler and feel a little better about myself. The more I advanced and the more I developed in art, but I was not at all satisfied with my artistic stage, most of the time I spent my time simply reproducing things, it was pretty, realistic, I had a few likes and good comments, but deep down I knew very well that it didn't really have a heart and soul, it was like just taking a simple picture and not adding anything to it. Around the age of 16, I had my first computer and a graphic tablet, which allowed me to better experiment with my colors, while I spent my time doing it with a ballpoint pen on real paper for lack of money. I was also able to rub shoulders with my brother, GIMP, my first photo editing software, where I spent my time cutting images and making collages, at the time very ugly, but that allowed me to understand how does this whole little world of photo editing work. Towards the baccalaureate, I had the ambition to integrate an art school, because to tell you the truth, to do management or marketing, it didn't tempt me too much. Unfortunately my grades blocked all these artistic doors for me, and I had to go into tourism where I kind of gave up on this idea, this dream, of one day being an artist. Finally, and that's kind of what I tell myself every day today, life has a path, and things are always done well. Behind every failure there is a gift, thanks to these tourism studies I was able to get good grades, gain a little more self-confidence, find this love that I have today for digital art. I was then able to integrate a real art school on my island which is Reunion, where I found myself surrounded by exceptional artists. I, who had got used to being the only one capable of drawing pretty characters, I took a real slap, because in the end I was far from good. Again, it helped me to challenge myself, and thanks to Instagram, to develop myself artistically. Of course it took me a lot of time, I had a syndrome that I call "lucas, you put too many elements in your artistic creations", suddenly at the end of all my tests I was far to be satisfied. But as my works progressed, I gradually managed to find my universe, to create my community, and finally to define myself as a potential artist. And today I feel so free, so good, to finally have my own touch, my way of doing things, and to have people who ask me for advice on my creations, etc., every day. Of course I summarized everything otherwise it was going to take me 3 years, things don't happen quickly, especially beautiful things. Life takes its time, so be patient, and above all never really be satisfied with what you do, always aim for evolution?

2. Show us your universe, your creative touch!

I love vintage, in art, music, movies, etc etc, and I am very often inspired by old magazines, and also in my colors. At the moment we see a lot of this fashion, this artistic trend I would say more, aesthetics, it is the artistic movement of our generation of social networks. I appropriate it with montages and collages to express a hidden message, I like to make people think with a simple image.

3. What is art for you?

Everything is art, you, your body, your gaze, the sky, the sea, even the dirtiest things hide art, and especially the saddest. Besides, I often repeat a sentence to myself, "happiness kills the poet", and the artist is a poet of the image, and is mainly inspired, from my point of view, by sadness, his sadness, from that of others. When you understand that there is art hidden in everything, you will understand that life is beautiful.

4. What is the work that marked you the most and why?

Vincent's Stary Night, because it perfectly expresses the melancholy I can have on certain evenings, most evenings I would say, facing this city lit up in front of me, full of life, Vincent was a very sad man, it's for that there is so much beauty in his works, and especially this one. Then of course Michelangelo's famous creation of Adam, already because his way of painting the bodies is extraordinary, I have no other deaths, and then God and his angels surrounded by a kind of sheets in the shape of a human brain. And I find that so well thought out, the power is in our hands, we are the people with the power to change things today.

5. When you create, what do you listen to?

All. Even koba LaD when the mood strikes, or nothing, sometimes my brain needs a break. But here is a small list: Tamino, Lomepal, The Doors, Elvis Presley, Aznavour, Brel, Paul anka, Nekfeu, Scylla 7. Today, you are god, what would you like to change on earth? A perfect world would be absent of art, of poetry, what's the point of changing it if it loses its soul. You're going to tell me that I'm going much too far, and that there are a lot of things to change, certainly, but I'm avoiding perfection. But please stop using plastic straws anyway

6. Who would you like us to introduce next?

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