INTERNATIONAL TALENT EXPO

IMAGINARIUM

ABOUT ZO

Artists on the Horizon of a New Renaissance

We believe that every human being has at least one MASTERPIECE in their soul. In addition to featuring and connecting with artists for many years, our publication has grown through global Creative Expos that we orchestrate and invite worldwide viewers to participate in.

Artists | Musicians | Writers | Creative Faire

Artwork: © Teunis Swart

“Loomer” — Lyscuro

Our mission at ZO is to encourage dialogue between creative thinkers and promote change through the arts. We feature work that we feel is timeless . . . and are not affiliated with any political, religious, racial, cultural or social movement.

We are ZO | Zone Obscura | Zone Organic | Zone Other

We encourage you to support the arts directly. If you are not a collector – become one – no matter how small. Collecting art will enrich your life and change the world. Visit local museums and regardless of what kind of schools you may be a part of, investigate whatever artistic history, movements or local groups that may be available to you. Search our pages and take time to read, explore and ponder the wealth of information that is being shared around the world. There is a new renaissance blooming, if you focus on the positive. We are blessed to be a small part of it.

2020 CLOUD Z — UPCOMING THEMES

Thoughts from the ZO

ZO is a unique collaborative arts project that orchestrates a vibrant daily-evolving Cloud Publication.

Using media as a platform to celebrate and connect divergent nationalities and cultures, we encourage world artists and their fans to share constructive, creative energies and an appreciation for each other.

We are organically comprised of an international convergence of creative souls, and have a thriving network now existing and touching more than 170 countries and regions globally. We promote a broad online presentation of art, photography, poetry, music, literary and design offerings — all geared to enhance communications between people and sharing through the Arts.

ZO will not publish its Collector’s Edition print copy, and is re-gearing toward an international online event titled Time ZOne. It will showcase excellence in the arts and a myriad of the worlds undiscovered treasures. As planned with our hard copy, we hope to touch on current life trends, environmental news and global events from a positive artistic perspective. Our intent is to focus on innovators who through their art, actions, writings and personal lives are endeavoring to further solutions and solve problems in a creative and artistic manner. We hope that our fecund approach will be an encouragement in a world of opinions that are often pessimistic and cynical.

2020 Schedule

October | THE EMPEROR’S CLOTHES

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Who are We Really Kidding?: An Open Monologue to the Abyss

November | ELEMENTAL

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Empirically Ephemeral: Stop Your Belly Aching and Get to Work

December | NOSTALGIA

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Sociological Subjective: Mom and Pop Art

. . . this already happened.

January | COLLECTIVE

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – The Art of Being Alone

February | LOST TWIN

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE

Tricia Stewart Shiu – Discernment in the Dark

March | ANCIENT GRACE

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE

Tricia Stewart Shiu – Instantaneously Indigenous: The unearthing of our existence

April | MAHVALOUS BUBBLES & BAUBLES

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE

Tricia Stewart Shiu – Embodying Artful Conversation

May | MOTION

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Understanding Neo: A Walk Though the Matrix

June | METAMORPHOSIS

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Gratefully Unbound: The Fear of Living in Transition

July | AUTONOMY

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Strange Drain: When Enough is a Communal Effort

August | FULL BLEED

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – The Age of Recognizance

September | COGNITION

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Self-Sabotage and the Flying Monkeys

Forward, to 2021…

January | FROM A WINDOW TO A DOOR / TRANSFORMATION

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Methodology Meets Sustainability: Are We Moving Forward?

Last year’s thoughts – 2019 . . . the seeds of yesterday are the trees of tomorrow.

January | RENAISSANCE

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu Review: Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance

OFF THE GRID Rachael Cadden: The Renaissance Within

February | DREAMSCAPE

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Doing Dali: Surprising Facts About a Surrealist Superstar “I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.” — Salvador Dali

March | IMAGINATION

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Breaking Freedom: The Decline of Imagination and How We Can Reclaim it

April | Surreal

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Real Life Emulation: When Life Supersedes Imitation and Becomes Art Itself

May | HUMANITY

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Starting from Scratch: Finding Beauty in Chaos & Other Humanitarian Actions — “When you are surviving you can’t dream” – Michael Ketterer: Father of 6 scores Golden Buzzer from Simon Cowell – America’s Got Talent 2018

OFF THE GRID
Rachael Cadden – STUFF: Experiences over things. Expanding perceptions

June | LIGHT

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Chasing Light: One Woman’s RV is Another Woman’s Launchpad

One summer evening, writer Becca Gummere, decided to buy an RV, rent her house out and travel for a year around the US by herself. Yes, she did it and she has some lessons for us all.

July | DISCOVERY

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Curiosity Created an Empire: How Tim Ferriss Made a Career Out of Self-Experimentation

August | DESIGN ABSTRACTION

Photo: Sebastian Julian for Getty Images

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Takashi Murakami: Renaming the “Warhol of Japan”

September | ALL DRESSED UP

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Missing Civility: Communication In the Age of Discourtesy

October | HAUTE ART

Photo: “Looking Through Time” | Pyrosky GI

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Who Lives There? Architectural Designs and the People Who Inhabit Them

Ever see those gorgeous glass houses? Wonder who lives there and, more importantly, how they live? We’ll take a peek into how one man’s plan to build the ultimate dream home came to life. (Jeremy Kaplan)

November | TRUTH

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: Is it Safe to Speak Your Truth?

December | MYSTERY

ARTISTIC ALLEGORY | LE MOT JUSTE
Tricia Stewart Shiu – Arcane Artistry: Explaining Process Without Ruining the Effect

“Nice Meeting You”
Werner Hornung Art – Gif by George Redhawk

JOIN OUR COLLABORATIVE VISION AND BECOME A SPONSOR and PATRON OF THIS HISTORIC CREATIVE ART MOVEMENT. You can do this through our developing Reach the World CITY Sponsorship Campaign.

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PREVIOUS FEATURES

We’ve been publishing in this online format since 2014 and would like to thank the following artists for allowing us to feature their art and often their hearts on our pages. We certainly would not be going to this Next Level without you and we are really looking forward to featuring your new work in this next level incarnation of ZO . . . Eternal Blessings!

In 2018 we went to an abstract schedule and started posting anything we want . . . anytime we want . . . LOL. It’s actually been a lot of fun! We’ll probably keep an abstract schedule for the Welcome Page through this year and we’re looking forward to a lot of positive, exciting changes.

2017 JULY to DECEMBER

ZO DAILY CLOUD COVER featuring these artists & creative surprises on the blank listed days each month
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01 | Pierre Gable
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03 | Sasza Baristow
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05 | Goro Endow
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07 | Ericco Studio
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09 | John W. Davis IV
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11 | Tarak Mahadi
12 |
13 | Ralf Poppcke-Fotografie
14 |
15 | Carole Rodrigue
16 |
17 | Duane Kirby Jensen
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19 | Jaeda Dewalt Artography
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21 | Per-Inge Isheden
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23 | Luis José Estremadoyro
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25 | Tara Cotter’ Nesci
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27 | Nad Wolinska
28 |
29 | Kadhim Nwir
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31 | Lisa Ridings – Fantommst

2017 JANUARY to JUNE

2016 JULY to DECEMBER

2016 JANUARY to JUNE

2015 JULY to DECEMBER

2015 JANUARY to JUNE

2014 FEATURED ARTISTS

Creative Quality of Life

The world can be like a runaway train, with people’s lives spiraling towards “digital relationships” and an almost robotically-paced lifestyle. Many wonder … where is the human touch in all of this?

ZO believes that art and creativity can bring some of our humanity back.

We are a bridge between world cultures, nature, technology, and overloaded careers sometimes drained of the dreams we had as children.

We want everyone to have an opportunity to be creative and ZO feels we are all a part of this New Renaissance!

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. — Charles Mingus

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. — William Plomer

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. — Edward de Bono

Artists and musicians are, and have always been, vehicles to express the ecstasy, conscience and agony of the times. They depict history from an emotional perspective and often highly influence traditions by their observations and portrayals —effecting change!

ZO’s mission is to spotlight the talents of the world — without precondition or partiality. Our mission is to use the arts as a podium of peace, one upon which racial and cultural barriers and bitterness may be traded for newfound exposure and understanding. We simply want to illuminate the talents, gifts and creativity that all of us have to some degree; but which have lain under-exposed and segregated by the walls of the world.

INTERNATIONAL TALENT EXPO

IMAGINARIUM

ABOUT ZO

Artists on the Horizon of a New Renaissance

We believe that every human being has at least one MASTERPIECE in their soul. In addition to featuring and connecting with artists for many years, our publication has grown through global Creative Expos that we orchestrate and invite worldwide viewers to participate in.

Artists | Musicians | Writers | Creative Faire

We are ZO | Zone Obscura | Zone Organic | Zone Other

2020 CLOUD Z — UPCOMING THEMES

2020 Schedule

Forward, to 2021…

JOIN OUR COLLABORATIVE VISION AND BECOME A SPONSOR and PATRON OF THIS HISTORIC CREATIVE ART MOVEMENT. You can do this through our developing Reach the World CITY Sponsorship Campaign.

PREVIOUS FEATURES

2017 JULY to DECEMBER

2017 JANUARY to JUNE

2016 JULY to DECEMBER

2016 JANUARY to JUNE

2015 JULY to DECEMBER

2015 JANUARY to JUNE

2014 FEATURED ARTISTS

Creative Quality of Life

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