Conceptual nominee

Radina Droumeva created the Imagination Series to push the limits of her own creativity. The central theme is the process of creating. She starts out by photographing the building blocks - pieces of driftwood and naturally fallen antlers. Next, she allows her imagination to play freely and create objects without the pre-determined boundaries of a final creation. She uses her intuition to guide the work towards a final creation and fine tunes the digital collage to complete each piece. The resulting series showcases her inner inspiration - living creatures, the beauty of nature, and the practice of mindful observation.

Radina Droumeva is a mathematician turned artist. She creates works inspired by mindfulness, nature, and human psychology concepts. Her series are constructed by methodical process design ingrained from her scientific research background. She uses this aspect of her work approach to expose the power of the human imagination, and through it study the human relationship to our physical and social environment.