• Claude Cahun

• Man Ray

• Osborne Macharia

• Munachi Osegbu

• Delali Ayivi

• Lewis Vorn

• Paolo Gioli

• Miles Aldridge

• Tim Walker

artists:

• Arvie Smith

• Ryan Heshka

• Greer Lankton

• Gran Fury

• Divine

musicians:

• Kate Bush

• PJ Harvey

• Grace Jones

• SOPHIE

• Pink Floyd

• Björk

• The Mamas and Papas

• Eurythmics

• The Fifth Dimension

• Talking Heads

• Prince

• Lady Gaga

• Chappell Roan

• Dora Jar

• FKA Twigs

• reviving old ways of life for a changing world

• "keep on keeping on"

• thriving within broken and failing systems

• hedonism and absurdity coexisting with seriousness and grief

• reimagining post-apocalyptic and steampunk

• transformation of self paralleling transformation of landscape

• meta-reflection about the role of art, fashion, and identity in counterculture and resistance

• picturing better directions for technology

• the power of asserting identity and taking up space

• wilderness, unruliness, expansiveness, refusal to be contained

• experience of euphoric, mystical, enlightened states; depersonalization and out-of-body experiences

• embracing transformative power of destruction as an opportunity to rebuild

• engaging with human creations, cultures, trends of the past

• land back through lens of people

• "art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable"