Author name: Ana

I’m a Portuguese artist and designer, currently living in France (and working in English), who loves to jump between digital and traditional art, while mixing fashion history with pop culture, music, film and literature in my artwork. I also write (a lot) about what it’s like being an artist living with late diagnosed ADHD and De Quervain’s tendonitis, with all the myriad of twists and turns that came with them.

Essays

Tongue Twister

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Growing up in Portugal in the 90s, I was raised as much by the internet as by my own country. English came first online; Portuguese stayed at home. Then I moved to France, where everything happens in French. Now I stretch myself across three languages, trying to figure out where I belong, and which language to use.