Your Full Name
Roxana Sagastume
Tell us about you
I am a girl that enjoy to see new and great stuff talking about artistic things, also I am a book eater I love to read about almost everything. In my personal life I am very patient person and so easy to be, I do respect every ones opinions even when I don’t share it I give the chance to the others. The most important thing to me in this world is to discover for what I am in this world, I want to help in anything to the others that wants to make something good for earth and others.
In your opinion, what would be the secret ingredients to become a great digital artist?
Follow your heart and stay strong even when no one likes what you are doing believe in yourself and make the things that you really want to make because at the end of the day ppl is not gonna be 100% happy if you try to make them happy, the only one opinion that matter about your art is the very your finally are your feelings there.
Where are you located?
Mexico in a town called San Cristobal De Las Casas at the beautiful Chiapas.
What is the most fascinating part of being a digital artist?
Keep walking, slow but never stop, keep dreaming and never lost the capacity of get surprised.
Where do you get inspirations from?
Everything, books, poetry, histories, anothers images,songs,music, life etc.
Do you promote/ sell/ showcase your work? If so, how?
Yes I do, I have participate and win some contest at Internet and at real life, I have my own gallery at my town.
If you have a long range goals in your life. What is it?
Well is not that I don’t have goals in life but if you expect too much you get disappointed about your ideas and I do like just expect life surprise me.
What types of assignment/ project are you attracted the most? Why so?
Photography, because is the exactly way to save a moment for ever, and I wanna be a good one so my nearly project is to take some classes with some of the best photographers at Mexico.
Who is a digital artist that you look up to? Why so?
There are two, the first one is Jan Saudek because he is a master talking about ideas and composition and he was one of the firsts photographer who manipulated images in the time of revelations with chemicals, and the second one is David Lachapele because he is a master if he wants a woman with spider hair he just ask for it to be made and then he manipulate the whole scene and I so adore his work.
Describe a difficult work/ project situation and how would you overcome it?
Well right now I got a project about making a documentary pictures about the 100 years of a city and I know how difficult is to make ppl happy talking about ideas and techniques to make photo about real ppl so I just try to be honest with myself and get involved with the ppl whom I am taking the pictures.
What do you think about the Internet and how it is affecting our lifestyle?
Well is a double weapon because it make you be near of the ppl you love and that is far away from you and it give you advice about so many things but also it can get you so far away from the ones who are beside you is addictive and sometimes dangerous.
If you could turn back time, how would you do things differently?
Exactly in the way I did, I have no regret about anything because even the bad things have been so damn good.
How do you keep your work fresh? Do you need to consciously adapt your style or does it progress naturally?
Well I use my feelings in every image, I don’t think if its fresh or not, for me it is every time, sometimes I make things news to everyone and sometimes I just get back to the start. Is not a bad thing.
Name 3 of your favorite (art) books/ magazines.
Una lampara llamada Rosario,the sundancer, Horal magazine.
What is your life motto?
A STRANGE THING CALLED LOVE.
In what kind of a work environment do you do your best work?
When I am totally alone in my cave of loneliness
What do you like the sound of? Why so?
The sound of the silence when everything is calmed in the middle of night.
If you have online portfolio, what is the URL?
www.roxanasagastume.tk English and Spanish
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