Adria Mercuri
Give us a little peek into your style's evolution. What shaped your current aesthetic approach?
I am, alternatingly, both a very soft and jagged person, which I hope is conveyed in my line work. I have been working to translate that sort of vulnerability and beauty for a long time. I also half-jokingly feel there are too many drawings of gorgeous women already and not nearly enough of gorgeous men.
What's inspiring you at the moment?
I have a pretty self-indulgent work-play balance, and right now I'm in the play mode of absorbing the external and trying to exist vividly. I think it's important to get outside of yourself for a while and then come home to the internal to produce work that is hopefully more alive. If that's not really an answer, the botanical watercolor illustrations and information posted on the alongside hiking trails.
You can do a portrait sitting with anyone on the planet. Whom do you immortalize?
Ah, this is tough! I want to say Bjork, selfishly in the hope of meeting her and possibly being in Iceland. maybe James Dean, for obvious doe-eyed reasons.
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