art by IMAIMDOODLES
bkk UNZINE art magazine aims to showcase the talents of artists and to bring creativity and community to audiences around the world.
Every month, a new curation from different notable artists is presented under a unique theme. bkk UNZINE is dedicated to promoting both established & up-and-coming talent. The following month’s theme is announced in each issue and we welcome all to submit artwork.
APRIL COOL
Welcome to bkk UNZINE!
What an issue this month… We had the great pleasure to collaborate with this month’s featured artist, Thai author / illustrator / architect Lipika Vethaka to bring you the 66th edition of our art magazine, themed “Between.” As always, thanks to all the gifted artists who contributed to this issue with their own interpretations. We love seeing the outpouring of creativity every month, as we are certain that readers do as well.
Be sure to check out both our text and video interviews with Lipika, whose amazingly crafted body of work is not only breathtakingly beautiful but meticulously researched and immensely informative. Along with the other artists’ pieces, we hope “Between” brings you an alternative but equally refreshing dose of cool as we move into the heat of the coming months!
Also consider retreating into the air conditioning at our weekly Comics Club and Monday Night DRAW! events, still ongoing at our studio UNZINE 95… Every Sunday morning learn about how to make comics from our very own Sketchman Boris and on Monday evenings drop by for a free-wheeling and lively time with fellow creatives…
Enjoy the magazine!
Next month’s theme is...
Accepting submissions NOW through 25 APRIL
RUNNING INTO THE MILLENNIUM
by LIPIKA VETHAKA
digital art, Adobe Photoshop
Set within an architectural threshold, this piece explores “between” as a space where multiple worlds coexist. The tiled surface functions as both image and barrier, collapsing narrative, memory, and myth into a single plane. Figures move across this boundary (between interior and exterior, past and present, light and shadow, human and other) suggesting that identity is not fixed but formed in transit. Drawing from manuscript and miniature traditions, the work reflects on liminality not as absence, but as a layered, inhabited space.
artwork & description by:
LIPIKA VETHAKA
WEAVE OUT
by CARLA VISSER
markers & Chinese black ink
I drew inspiration from the Chimu spindle and a piece of cotton cloth (found in a tomb) that had a school of fish woven onto it (National Geographic, March 1973). I just thought of how the fish would swim away from the spindle. They would flow up, down and in between.
artwork & description by:
CARLA VISSER
UNSPOKEN EMOTION
by CARO LION
oil pastel & ink on wash
How can we express that negative space between us?
artwork & description by:
CARO LION
BETWEEN
by IMAIMDOODLES
digital painting
When you look into the mirror, what do you see: a reflection of yourself, or an illusion of the self? Does the brain construct what we see as reality, or merely an interpretation we can handle?
artwork & description by:
IMAIMDOODLES
MILK FOR TWO
by LAUN H.
digital painting, Procreate
“Milk for Two” is the ongoing cover artwork concept for my upcoming novel, I Feed Father. I made this story as a reflection of the self, and how cycles of care and abuse shape who we become.
Bicephalic calves are not meant to be alive, yet sometimes they are born anyway. Aberrations as the world deems them, but born to witness the sky, if only for a day. Now multiply those days by thousands. After so long, would they not begin to believe they were never meant to exist at all?
artwork & description by:
LAUN H.
SPIRIT WOLF AND THE BATTLE BETWEEN RESIGNATION AND RESILIENCE
by KAYLA TARAMON
gypsum, clay & acrylic on linen
This is the first of my 17 piece collection, based off of a muse from one of my many lives. It depicts the journey many of us go through when somewhere, in the midst of life's many ordeals, we can lose faith. But no matter how far we fall, we can always find our way back to it again.
artwork & description by:
KAYLA TARAMON
WAITING PERIOD
by ZKYE
digital illustration, Procreate
Yes, it is just the most literal illustration of the feeling of being stuck between time. But there are weeks or even months of my life where I am just waiting for something, and these moments can feel physically grating and heavy. The character is unclothed, they’re vulnerable and can feel passage of time directly on their skin. And there’s not much else to do but watch and wait. Funnily though, the idea and composition came to me in a flash, unlike the subject matter it’s depicting.
artwork & description by:
ZKYE
BETWEEN ME, MYSELF AND I
by NOTMOVINGTDAY
digital painting & writing
The first thought when I saw "Between" was being in between psychosis and consciousness. I believe it happens more commonly than we think and would like to express my own experience through this piece for anyone who feels alone with these states. The whole painting and writing is so blurred but that is just what having psychosis while conscious at the same time feels.
artwork & description by:
NOTMOVINGTDAY
At bkk UNZINE, we are lovers of comics and every month we’ll be shining a spotlight on comics projects worthy of attention. Remember to check out our Comics Club every Sunday at UNZINE 95, hosted by bkk UNZINE founder Sketchman Boris, and have fun learning about different aspects of making comics!
This month we introduce Comics Corner’s “One to Watch,” where we will feature local comics creators whose work deserves a closer look.
The stunning horror comics of Thai writer and artist Kongsak Bunon Sak caught our eye and bkk UNZINE is honored to share some sample pages below. To follow Kongsak and see more of his comics and illustrations, links to his social media can be found at his artist profile here.
Also presented are the first two pages of Between Program in our continuing series of previews of comics by Sketchman Boris.
Title: DEMON CURSE
Title: PHOBIA
Title: EDDIE
Title: GHOST SEAL
Pigma G-pen, dip ink on paper
artwork & description by:
KONGSAK BUNON SAK
by SKETCHMAN BORIS
BETWEEN PROGRAM
brush pen & ink pens, digitally finished on Clip Studio Paint
Here are the two first pages of Between Program, a short comic created for this theme and available to read for free on my ko-fi page at https://ko-fi.com/sketchmanboris/shop.
Shingo, a werewolf in his wolf state, lives in Bangkok. He is one of the wolves of Bangkok. This short story shows the time when Shingo had to choose between getting an android companion or not. As he is in the office of the company that offers this, he is split between the scenarios in his head of what might happen if he had an android companion and the present reality when he hasn’t signed the contract to join the Between Program.
I don’t know if this has been done before but I have also used this method where between the split image panel of his head we see what he imagines to show what goes on in his mind.
artwork & description by:
SKETCHMAN BORIS
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next month’s theme is…
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