developing MOLy_X

EXTRA EDITION! EXTRA EDITION!
As I was questioning the limitation of diversity that the Moly_X can go for, here comes the new approach of this fabulous journal! Recently, Moly_X is planning for its subcategories exploration, such as their first Moly_X_Portrait exchange (click on the image to the official blog). Sooner or later, the exchange project will have more and more specific interests and issues just like the way of an art megazine having various contents in each issue. I am eager to read this new type of Moly and report my thought about that...so here it goes:

originally uploaded by szaza

I like this portrait drawing done by Szaza, not only because of its successful drawing but also since it especially enlightens my thought of relating the form of journal drawing to the form of media making. The “Moly way” of portrait conveys a hypothetical scene on its vivid art presences, combining authentic elements of the drawled figures and the symbolic elements such as the background of red, the circular dots of line and the pigeons. The artist uses texts to provide information about the figures on her portrait on the entry of the blog, which functioned as the "publisher" of this artifact. The lady on right is the artist herself, and the man on left is Rama, one of the members in this Moly_X_Protrait group. I intended to be snoopy and found out that Rama and Szaza are artists from different cities in USA. Szaza indicates through texts that the reference image of Rama comes from a photo of him on the envelopes that sending their Moleskines, which means that the drawing is a hypothetical scene.
Therefore, I suppose the topic of this piece is about communication between two people through the exchange of art. The image embodies the closeness between these two figures, so I suppose that they regard each other as soulmates that can inspire them to create art, even though they have never met before. I interpret all this content as a viewer who is above the “gossip” average. It is interesting to discover that these people itself have become the subject matter of the exchange event; the content of the Moly_X is the Being of Moly_X.