Featured Artist Update: Sebasebi
If you’ve ever woken from a dream and still felt trapped between the real world and the dreamworld, then you will appreciate this week’s dreamy Featured Artist Sebasebi! The returning artist’s artwork is a portal to a dreamworld, where the sounds of a dream linger and shadows shift like creatures from another world. Follow these sounds and explore the shadows with Sebasebi’s surrealist art today!
Sebastian Govino, aka Sebasebi, was originally from Rosario, Argentina but has been living in Biarritz, France for the last several years. The full-time freelance artist enjoys practicing the trumpet, experimenting with new art mediums, and playing sports. He confesses that he has always considered himself a surrealist artist and he enjoys emphasizing “something strange, that captures the attention” or the “mysteries of the universe.” Today, he believes that he has “achieved a cleaner, more summarized and concrete image” to capture the bizarre and dream-like elements of his visions.
He reminds other artists to “control the anxiety of seeing a finished work.” He understands the worry associated with finishing a piece by a deadline, but he asks artists to give their work the time and dedication it deserves to become something they can be proud of. He admits there is nothing more heartbreaking than seeing one of his finished pieces that has been rushed or hurried.
He shares that the first time he truly felt like an artist was when he published his digital drawing “The Painter” in 2010 on Design By Humans. Until that moment, he considered his creative projects to be “a hobby, an entertainment” and it was only upon seeing the design’s success that he finally had the “confidence and security to dedicate myself only to art.” He jokes that he has finally learned to focus his interest because “with time I learned not to diversify my energy too much because otherwise nothing works out well.” In the future, he looks forward to promoting his paintings, focusing on his musical projects, and continuing his digital art.
