Writer, Graphic Arts
My name is Ana Alfianu and I‘m a graphic artist from Romania. Most of my life I have considered art to be a necessary tool for my own healing as well as a means to better understand myself and the world around me. While all that may still be true, I know that art represents much more than that: there comes a time when the focus gradually shifts from your own self towards the others, when you‘re ready to truly offer something to the people around you, not just by chance orcircumstance, but by choice. This, I think, is the moment when you cease to simply be an artist and simply be a human being, and manage to merge the two in a harmonious whole. The steps to reach this state may be difficult and full of doubt, but I believe this to be the real growth and evolution to strive for: while maintaining your individuality, to kindly manage to dissolve in the others, for the others, through art.
