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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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Between notebook and camera
My return to the creative field after seven years on the police force was always going to be a difficult one. The need for a stable income—something I could step back into quickly while still giving me the space I needed—led me to begin again through freelance photography as my first step. It was a… 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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A New Lease of Life in the Creative Process
As a journalist working in print media, this may sound strange — but one of the things I miss most is browsing through physical magazines. Stacks of them.Flicking through pages.Cutting out images.Pinning references to a wall. There was something immediate about it. Tangible. You could live with an image while you worked. The internet gives… 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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It ain’t the end of the world just a new era – my thoughts on AI
First of all let me thank everyone who had like my previous blogs and subscribed. It’s always nice to know people are reading and are interested. SO thank you most sincerely. Now for today. “AI is going to take over the world.” Have you heard that one before? Probably, as it’s now become common to… Read more
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Nearly three years on…
“It’s been nearly three years since I last wrote in this blog, and since then, many things have happened. The one big thing that has happened is a realization that to break into the art world and get recognized, you need to market yourself, and that is one thing which I find difficult to do.… Read more
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