On Cover
GILDA
Contemporary American Artist
“Where Animals Are Not Subjects but Presences, and Every Canvas Is a Threshold”
Cover Story
To stand before a painting by GILDA is to step into a world that vibrates at a frequency just slightly beyond the ordinary. The colours do not merely fill the canvas. They radiate from it, carrying an energy that is difficult to name but impossible to miss. The animals at the centre of her work gaze back at the viewer with a quiet intelligence and a composure that suggests they know something about the world that most of us are still trying to understand. This is not accidental. Across a career spanning five decades, GILDA has built a visual language that is entirely her own: part Pop Art exuberance, part Neo-Expressionist depth, entirely rooted in a conviction that art, at its most powerful, does not decorate space. It transforms it.
Samruddha Purekar
In a world increasingly dominated by algorithmic imagery and digital saturation, Samruddha Purekar stands as a guardian of something rare: the human hand’s ability to translate presence into permanence. Working under the name Samruddhartè, she has spent years refining a practice that refuses the dramatic in favor of the profound, choosing restraint over spectacle, and depth over immediacy.
Brian C. Baker
In a world where children abandon creativity for conformity, Brian C. Baker made a different choice at school recess: he chose to draw over play. This simple decision would set in motion a lifetime journey through the labyrinth of consciousness, where art becomes the bridge between the seen and unseen dimensions of existence.