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This Week’s Article: Mustashrik
Posted: December 12, 2010
Of all his chosen media, comics appeal to Mustashrik for “the unbridled expression you can create. Anything your mind conjures up can appear on a page within minutes. With comics you are only the limit of your own constraints, and in that lies the beauty of it all.” Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1985 and based for now in London, Mustashrik is like the comics, films, art and design he makes, a true fusion comfortably bestriding multiple media and cross-cultural influences.
From South Asian cinema comes a fascination for choreography, whether staged or improvised, and for that sudden removal from reality into a lavishly ornate escapist sequence of song and dance. From Japan comes a passion for the sensory overload of their masters of manga and anime, fired through exposure at age six or seven to Katsuhiro Otomo’s decadent dystopia Akira, as well as a later appreciation of the ambiguity and suggestion of authors Haruki Murakami and Kazuo Ishiguro. And from much traveling and living all across Britain comes an early empathy with the plight of others from all stretches of life. Read the full article here…
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