BUBBLE GUM 3 
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ABOUT AKWAABA SERIES
The artwork “Akwaaba 2”, by ivorian digital artist Jean-David Niangoran aka BLVCKRTST, results from a reflexion on spirituality, nature and society. For that, the artist creates characters that express his vision about reality. This character represents the spirit of the man who lives in a spiritual dimension. Akwaaba stages the appearance of this spirit.
“It [digital art] allows me to feel good, to be in agreement with myself. But above all, what I like is to transmit emotions. (…) I like this because it is a sharing between me and those who contemplate my works. For me, being an artist means being able to transmit emotions to others, that’s what makes art come alive. To pass messages is to give one’s opinion, one’s thought on a fact.” (Jean-David Niangoran)
Jean-David Niangoran aka BLVCKVRTST is an african photographer and self-taught visual/digital artist from Ivory Coast. The 28 year old artist based in Abidjan has been in love with photography since he was very young. Being an introverted person since his young age, photography has always been a vehicle of expression, a way to convey messages. The artist has always sought to convey emotions, feelings of all kinds (joy, love, fear, anger etc) to the people around him, and, in 2019, he made the decision to dedicate himself to photography professionally. As a photographer he specialized very quickly in digital art, as he evolved in the world of computer science. His creative genius was recognized in the tenth edition of the contemporary art competition of Société Générale Côte d’Ivoire, distinguished for his irreverent digital art with a futuristic universe influenced by spirituality, nature and the society.
