For this particular essay, we will be discussing Star Smart’s experimental photography series referred to as The Flowers: Overcoming & Healing . These photographs were taken with a cell phone and digitally altered with an obsolete phone application which no longer exists. The series depicts sets of piles of mediation pills formed into a circle with their colors altered to appear hallucinogenic, full of bright neon tones. The other part of the series of the Healing contains sm

Star Smart is a mixed media and assemblage artist who has exhibited around the world in many countries across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. To date, she has participated in over 100 exhibitions including about two dozen museums and has won prestigious awards such as the Robert Rauschenberg Grant. Recent solo features include Worldwide Art Movement Gallery in Kochi, India and Elsa Victorios Gallery in Pembroke Pines, Florida and notable collective exhibitio

Jaina Cipriano is a photographer, filmmaker, actor, writer, and set designer who owns her own set design company, Finding Bright Studios, and is also the owner of the Arlington Film Festival. She has been published over 200 times in various independent and established publications such as The Boston Globe. She has exhibited mostly in the Boston metropolitan area as well as across the United States and in Europe. In Jaina's photography and films, all the props and sets are bui

Nastas'ya Kydryashova is a filmmaker, photographer, writer, theatre director, Art Director of the Chevle Charity Festival, and former Gallery Director of Nehudozhnik Gallery. Her activities and research on the Chuvash people was featured at a conference at Princeton University. Nastas'ya’s recent achievements include her film SÂMAX  receiving accreditation at the Cannes Film Festival and was included in the long list of the Short Art Films nomination, serving as the art direc

Leah Oates is a fluxus analogue photographer who has exhibited extensively in the United States and Canada, particularly in the New York and Toronto metropolitan areas, as well as in Europe. Notable solo exhibitions in New York include the Brooklyn Public Library, Susan Eley Fine Art, Arsenal Gallery, Center for Book Arts, Sarah Nightingale Gallery, A Taste of Art Gallery, A4L Gallery, and AIR Gallery. Museums Leah has exhibited at include fine institutions such as the Rhode