Who are you, Ingrid Magalinska?
In order to answer this question
more thoroughly, I'd need to tell you
a short story first. May I?
My Winnie the Pooh like Answer
A brief talk with my inner thing
Illustration by Ingrid Magalinska from
Tara, the ladybird that lived in a pumpkin
“One day, a happy-go-lucky little girl named Ingrid (in a country where almost no one else was named Ingrid) walked down a quiet street, thinking out loud:
Who am I?
As she couldn't find an easy answer, and as far she was a wise little lady,
she went on asking:
What do I intend to be some day?
This time the easy answer came by itself:
Homo Ludens.
There was a blue book with a big black title “Homo Ludens” on a shelf beside Ingrid’s bed. She loved the design - it sounded kind of… “tasty”. When she asked what it meant, they told her that Ludens had no direct equivalent in their language, but it referred best to “play”,
or such...
Another option for Ingrid was to become
An Astronaut.
Both choices sounded equally okay with her, so Ingrid happily ran down the sidewalk and jumped bravely into the Future.”
And next? Tell me what happened!
Nowadays, virtually walking down the same path, I realized that I have materialized both intentions. I knew that Winnie-the-Pooh’s approach (...want them both!)* worked perfectly.
Worked perfectly? But you became an Artist and not an Astronaut…?
Yep. Let me explain.
The Artist is a human being, who is Free and Joyful. Arts have lots to do with the harmony of Vastness. I’m talking about Vastness, understood through the lens of dance (of lines, or colors, or sounds, bodies or whatever) with the help of expressions, interpreted with ease as an artwork.
Arts are not limited to Fine Art. Or Music, or Poetry, or any other…
Art is vibration. It’s everywhere, and you should be a Free soul to capture and play it. You must be Homo Ludens.
And…, while joyfully dancing through the Vastness, the Artist discovers outer worlds, creates links, transfers messages and visuals from there, just like the Astronaut does.
What kind of art do you perform?
Well, I started as an illustrator. I develop imaginary characters for different types of works of fiction, such as children's books, toys, multimedia apps or pure art. I help storytelling by visualizing fancy personalities and magical environment.
I partner from the very beggining with my husband Stefan - he’s a graphic designer.
*...Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o’clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don’t bother about the bread, please."...
What are you working on now?
I love playing with black and white to make graphics. Black pencils and ink have always been my favorite media.
...“What about letting graphics leave
the surface and live their own life
in 3D space?”
Such thoughts came to my mind a couple of years ago. And...
The Graphic Sculptures Project came to life shortly. It was not about painting over volumes or placing grids of ornaments over them, but drawing through space. Something like multidimensional drawings - kind of.
You can see many examples here. Together with Steve, we are preparing to launch virtual gallery where art lovers can find graphic sculptures and display them on any screen: a 360 view just like walking around a real sculpture.
We are also developing material copies, we are having talks with investors and contractors, but this part of the project is yet in an initial stage.
So its high time for the Graphic Sculptures Project to go live.
And you are kindly invited to join.
Dance in the Vastness
A Graphic Sculpture by Ingrid Magalinska
