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Roam magazine celebrates the modern folk movement in a refreshing new way

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Folk music, folk tales, folk art and other cultural artefacts are passed down from generation to generation and may point to deeper truths than official history, which can often be heavily influenced by contemporary propaganda. As the philosopher George Santayana once wrote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

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Weston Wei's imaginative illustrations explore the relationships between bodies and diseases

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My art combines narrative and conceptual styles," he tells Creative Boom. This project aims to convey my thoughts about the relationship between our physical body and disease, to sympathise with more people struggling with illness, and to tell them to believe in their mental power." Also, the topic of this project is Symbiosis.

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Sabina Speich crafts large-scale pizza, bacon and chips through her 'freestyle' method of crochet

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Art has been my purpose all my life," she says, having grown up in Winterthur, Switzerland, to an artist father who supported her crafts from an early age. When she got older, Sabina attended fine art school in St. Gallen before heading to art college in Switzerland. I like to laugh a lot about my funny looking art.".

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The creatives' guide to finding happiness

Creative Boom

Pouring my feelings and experiences into my art and stories drives me to keep making and brings me happiness," she explains. For more on this topic, listen to our podcast interview with Alison Haigh on Why honesty is better for everyone in the creative industries 5. Illustrator and comic artist Rebecca Burgess tells a similar tale.

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Jiggly Wiggly: Eva Münnich's animated short is a timely reminder that you're a cutie pie

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Director Eva Münnich is here to dispel any insecurities you may be feeling in the run-up to summer with Jiggly Wiggly, a Pictoplasma-recognised animated short which encourages you to celebrate your cute body. Summer is here, which means sun, sea, and for many people, struggles with body positivity.

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Visual artist Danzhu Hu crafts a surreal and melancholic world where trauma can be reimagined

Creative Boom

She builds her visual language by collecting aesthetic cues from nature's organic shapes, Art Nouveau masters' curvilinear ornaments, atmospheric cinematography, and beyond. However, with the lack of resources and access to the art world, I became used to looking inward to my inner world for creative inspiration.

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New book Spray Nation shares unseen photos of New York's pioneering graffiti artists

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Photographer Martha Cooper got unrivalled access to the revolutionary street art scene of 1980s New York. Then, in the 1970s, a revolution began in the subways of New York City, as youngsters spray-painted vibrant, colourful, cartoonish and overwhelmingly positive graffiti that would spread around the world and change the art scene forever.

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