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The Innocence of Child and Nature – Art, Meaning & Story
There’s something quietly powerful about the way children experience the world—unfiltered, curious, and completely immersed in the present moment. “Innocence of Child and Nature” began as an attempt to capture that fleeting feeling. In this illustrative collage, a young child sits beneath the sheltering branches of a tree, mesmerized by the graceful dance of butterflies.… Read more
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Women with the Closed Door – The Story Behind It
(Listen while you read: https://open.spotify.com/track/6ZZlgcTu9AFLaPRY9qUlwH?si=5d7c825bd0d74ec7) You look around you—check social media, read the latest posts, maybe even watch TV—and all you seem to see are people chasing their fifteen minutes of glory. Many get thousands of hits, even millions, sometimes for the most futile things you could be watching, reading, or listening to. It seems… Read more
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Responsibility of a Creative Towards Sustainability
That’s a heavy title, isn’t it? You’re probably expecting a long lecture about climate change, saving the planet, and all the usual talking points. I’m not going to do that—at least not in the way you might expect. Instead, I’ll start with one simple statement of fact: I am just one person. I cannot change… Read more
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A New Era — a new domain
It’s an exciting moment. The move to stephenignacio.art places the focus, for the first time, exactly where it belongs — on my art, my creative work — not as a side project, not as a business experiment, but as the central thread that connects everything I do. For years I’ve been building across different platforms:my… Read more
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Not Cheating. Translating.
It’s been a while. A lot has happened — and yet, very little. Sometimes art has to take second place while life rearranges itself. Mine did. I stopped pushing outward so I could stabilise inward. From the outside, not much changed. Inside, everything did. I asked myself the questions artists avoid:Why so many platforms but… Read more
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Unlocking Creativity… Not Quite
It’s been several months since I last updated this blog. Many things have come and gone, and some have stayed the same, continuing to linger like an annoying thorn stuck in a place you just can’t reach, with no one around to help you pull it out. During my time away from this blog, one… Read more
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A new normal – the designs for masks
stephenignacio.redbubble.com Back in April when the opportunity arose to create designs for masks i grappled with the idea. It seemed totally wrong to even consider it, the world was living through a global pandemic, tens of thousands were losing their lives and it just seemed wrong to even think that your designs could be worn… Read more
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Design awareness on climate change
Before Covid-19 became the focus of attention across the world there was another story that even a pandemic will not take away from us. The consequences of human impact on the environment is one that took precedence across many news media outlets, but it was also a focal point for many artists and designers. It… Read more
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No pigeon-holing, please, even in P.O.D.
Some years ago I decided I was going to try out something different from just drawing on paper or designing for clients. Always having been interested in printing trying out to do some silkscreen printing was somewhat of a flop. You just cannot start trying to screen print at even a small scale with a… Read more
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