RAW BOARD CHAIR: SECRETARY: TREASURER: DESIGNER: EVENT MANAGERS:
Manouk Macville Esther Kromah Rosalie de Kloe Aiske Fonda Ann-Sophie Haspel & Zoé van Ysseldijk
EDITORS Alex Cole Charlotte Daemen Luna Erica Rayan Hassaine Maguiña Ramilo Henry Alice van der Heyden Nina Den Hollander Aoife Holohan Jelle Hubertse Luna Goldsborough Léa Jörg
Wieke Kagenaar Viana Kocher Taylor Lee Stefan Loata Mieke Pressley Anne van Roozendaal Roos Saat Kurt van Wyk Dini Cornelia Wagner Anne Willemsen Dana Zoutman
FOREWORD Dear Art Lovers, It is with great pleasure that we present to you the 13th edition of RAW. As always, it’s filled with very diverse artworks showing the immense artistic abilities of the UCR community, so a huge thank you to all the artists! RAW is also impossible without the editors to help us select after careful consideration of each artwork that was submitted. Finally, we would like to sincerely thank our sponsors: the Vleeshal and Røst. Enjoy, The RAW Board
Matching Colours Roos Saat
Bram Medelli
Building Blocks
Sudden Encounter. Kotor, Montenegro Anya Zorina
Lament for Man Kurt van Wyk
Ay Ling Thung
Madelief Feenstra
Untitled (Paris)
Fish Market
Luka Bedoshvili
Untitled (Rome) Madelief Feenstra
Anya Zorina
Waiting for the Storm. Kyiv, Ukraine
Whisper
Manouk Macville
Edith
Susanne Epema
Rosalie de Kloe
Jerusalem 2018
Julia Berger
st. julien
Anonymous there is a lightness about you and i choke up every time thinking about how goodness is difficult yet deserves to exist despite the goddamn hardships and i am trying to grasp whatever i can but my breaths are heavy and my hands keep shaking while it is still out there reminding me things can be okay.
Hourglass
Bram Medelli
Rosalie de Kloe
Piefje
Take it Back
Anja Herrmann
Anne van Roozendaal
Hackney
Luka Bedoshvili
BASAWEBAAEVABWE
Untitled
Aiske Fonda
Follow Colour MaguiĂąa Henry
Ay Ling Thung
BACKGROUND STORIES Lament for Man by Kurt van Wyk
On the night of September 3 this year, the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro burned to the ground. Hundreds of years of cultural and natural heritage was lost in just a few hours. A few weeks ago, Jair Bolsonaro was elected as president of Brazil. Bolsonaro is an extreme right-wing politician and, among other flaws, represents a major concern to Brazil’s conservation policy. Having come so far in reducing deforestation, Brazil is now back to a tipping point. In my drawing, the plants/flowers covering the man’s head are all South American endemic species, some of which are of cultural significance. Through this drawing, I wanted to tie the fragile and fleating nature of flowers to the equally fragile and fleating nature of humanity. In destroying the natural world around us, we destroy a core aspect of our shared consciousness. Without an appreciation for the way our environment influences our culture, we are incomplete and, at best, fumbling through life.
Whisper by Manouk Macville
If you want to see the real image, take a picture and invert the colours (you can do this on your phone or online). This way black becomes white, and white becomes black.
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