Does your environment/personal life influence your art? How so?
Yes, these influence my mood and then my way of relating with the creation that I'm doing at the time.
Where do you usually get inspiration from?
I believe that inspiration often comes from the knowledge, the culture .. as well as the imaginary. However, usually, I take inspiration from everything around me..books, films, exhibitions of other artists, people I meet ... very often from my dreams!
How would you describe your work process? Do you have any creative rituals?
Usually I've a kind of conceptual thinking, I create the image in my mind, or something similar to the idea of the concept, and I try to recreate it on the paper/photo/computer. Sometimes it ends up different from the image that I previously thought.
What tools/medium do you use in creating your artwork?
This depends on the type of work that I must do.
At times many tools, from makeup to underwater photography; at others just photoshop.
Mostly I use Photoshop, Wacom tablet, Mac, reflex camera.
In your experience, what are the moments that you have struggled or had difficulty in coming up with a concept? How did you overcome?
Usually the problem isn't the realization of the concept.. but the time. Sometimes I make an artwork in two days, whilst some others I create it in months and months! Indeed I have an archive of unfinished works by more than a year, who are still waiting to be concluded or altered!
Sometimes it happens that I finish a drawing after a long time, totally distorting the original idea but taking the same concept.
Perhaps the most difficult times are for commissioned works. I must start from the basic idea of my client, respecting his idea, but putting my imagination ..
so ... I live a moment of mental chaos, .. Slowly clear my mind and find a compromise between what the customer wants and my idea.
Fortunately, usually we are all satisfied! :)
Can you describe your signature style? How did you come up with your style?
Some reviews have described it as cold, some grim, some charming, or just strange.
I think that, like other artists who have a strong hallmark, is an invisibile signature. You can change some elements, subjects, landscapes, colors, but there is always the atmosphere that leads the observer to think of you. As a musician .. change the sounds but your ear recognizes it.
And for an artist this is the greatest satisfaction. How to do this? It;s like a fingerprint…you've got it already.
Your personal work seem to possess a common theme that is very compelling. What's the story behind your work, "Humanization" and does it relate to your other work?
Yes, my drawings are more or less the same theme, that of the woman technologically advanced, which has some digital implants as an integral part of her body, to compensate for the shortcomings of the human body.
Having the technology as part of herself, she doesn't need to seek outside help. Aid more or less common, like hearing herself through a pair of headphones connected to the head. Or when we want, adjust the volume of the ears, or capture an image as if we had a camera lens in the eye.
The atmosphere a bit sad may be derived from the fact that there are things we can't replace with any technological system.
Humanization, in short, represents a phase of my "cyborg-woman". Its direction is bilateral, meaning that you look at it as building a robot, but in reality there are elements that are making it more like a human, as the airbrush that is coloring the skin, the pieces to hide the screws, etc..
What keeps you busy now? Do you have any current projects?
Yes, I' m working on several projects simultaneously. (besides the graphics and portraits on commission).
Two personal projects that I'm pursuing are:
Fashion Victim: A series of digital painting in which I study the elements of fashion as mutations-changes in the body.
Non-ordinary underwater life: a photographic project ... The title suggests something! You will see them soon.
Any message for our readers?
Don't worry at times to give shape to a thought may seem complicated, especially at the beginning of construction, before triggering the mechanism by which you are in a parallel dimension and wake up when the work is finished.
These are the situations that help you become a better artist. Believe in yourself.
I hope this can be a source of inspiration to start (or restart) to draw!
I hope to read your interviews soon.
Diamante Murru is a digital and performing artist and a great photo manipulator. You will surely be mesmerized by the cyborg women in her digital art/paintings, which she is known for. Her work and the vision behind it would definitely draw you into looking for more of Diamante's work. This interview would give us a better insight into this artist's work process, inspiration and background info.
