In Sri Lanka, Swoon divided her time between meditation, drawing, and observing the ocean’s movement. Unexpectedly finding herself in a monastery during the onset of global lockdowns, she experienced a profound stillness shaped by ritual and nature. The rhythms of daily meditation and the sea’s swirling patterns informed her observational approach. Her print studies the water below Sunyata, translating its motion into intricate line work. The piece reflects a moment of pause and introspection, where environment and inner landscape merged into a quietly powerful visual meditation.

Emerging from Amanda Lobo’s visual universe, this edition reflects on the construction of the self as both exposed and protected. Figures take shape through layers of detail and ornament, forming a kind of external armor: a surface that both conceals and safeguards an inner core. Drawing from her language of fantasy and exaggeration, the work transforms vulnerability into structure, where decoration becomes defense, and identity is held in tension between what is shown and what is kept intact.

In the early days of graffiti, the ultimate flex in the scene had a name: wholetrain. To paint not just a single carriage but an entire moving vessel from end to end was a feat of scale, coordination, and audacity. Emerging in late-1970s New York, the wholetrain became a rite of passage: it was a moving celebration of collaboration between different artists, friendship, adrenaline, and sheer artistic nerve. When a wholetrain rolled into a station, everyone stopped. It was that powerful.

This spirit of collective creation, risk, and improvisation is the foundation of WHOLETRAINS, a project initiated by Alexandre Farto aka Vhils. He invited close friends, long-time collaborators, and some of the most important graffiti artists today — Barry McGee, OSGEMEOS, and Revok, who in different corners of the world, also grew up working on trains — to take this legendary spirit and twist it into something new. Instead of steel and subway tunnels, the structure unfolds on a long sheet of paper mapping the outline of a real train from Portugal’s Sintra Line.