HIGH ART 2020 SPOTLIGHT: NICHOLAS ARJULIAN
“The Gate of Contemplation”
Nicholas Arjulian is a freelancer graphic design and illustrator from Indonesia. He loves creating themes around, death, gloom, emptiness, the dark and the weird. He prefers to design and draw with pens on paper and then finish up with software design systems. His art designs are inspired by the work of Harry Clarke and Aubrey Vincent Beardsley.
In the creation of this work, Nicholas visualized what he had been feeling, since burning marijuana for the first time. His heart is subject to a sense of honesty and sincerity, his body flies, his eyes dimmed, his imagination explodes and everything feels very beautiful. He felt the miracle of being in his body. For a moment he felt calm, amazed, joyful, spinning. Each of these feelings blends like a spider web, and he realized, slowly, that cannabis had healed him from all the harmful drugs that he had consumed.
See all the art submitted to High Art 2020 at: High Art Finalists
Follow High Art on Instagram! @highartcompetition
High Art was created by Dona Frank and The Natural Cannabis Company in 2014 as a crowdsourcing solution to packaging design. From its humble beginnings, High Art has developed into an internationally-known art competition with thousands of entries annually from 100+ countries all over the world.
Each year professional and amateur artists create themed works through a variety of mediums to compete for $50,000 in prize money and to see their work featured on packaging, social media, at the High Art gallery in Santa Rosa, CA and displayed at prestigious art events, in the United States and abroad.
High Art was created by Dona Frank and The Natural Cannabis Company in 2014 as a crowdsourcing solution to packaging design. From its humble beginnings, High Art has developed into an internationally-known art competition with thousands of entries annually from 100+ countries all over the world.
Each year professional and amateur artists create themed works through a variety of mediums to compete for $50,000 in prize money and to see their work featured on packaging, social media, at the High Art gallery in Santa Rosa, CA and displayed at prestigious art events, in the United States and abroad.