SAND: generally associated with the beach; tends to get stuck between the toes and find its way into sandwiches. Guaranteed to linger at the bottom of your bag even though it’s weeks since you returned from Spain. It turns out sand can be put to good use too! I discovered artist Naoshi whilst perusing shoppe of cool stuff, Hannah Zakari.
Naoshi uses sand to create her work, which is what gives her images such saturated colour. Watch Naoshi’s video about Sanae at her site nao-shi.com
I really like the weird world Naoshi curates; her characters remind me a little of Velma from Scooby Doo only with better clothes and often impossible headgear. And I like that they’re not particularly smiley, just dancing with books or walking the dog whilst wearing a goat as a hat.