Posts by Emma Taggart

Emma Taggart

Emma Taggart is a Staff Writer and Video Editor at My Modern Met. She earned a BA in Fashion and Textile Design at the University of Ulster in Belfast. Originally from Northern Ireland, she lived in Berlin for many years, where she fostered a career in the arts, dabbling in everything from illustration and animation to music and ceramics. She now calls Edinburgh home, where she continues to work as a writer, illustrator, and ceramicist. Her ceramics, often combined with hand-painted animation frames, capture playful scenes that celebrate freedom and movement, and blend her passion for art with storytelling. Her illustrations have been featured in The Berliner Magazine as well as other print magazines and a poetry book.
Art History
October 29, 2018

Wabi-Sabi: The Japanese Art of Finding Beauty in Imperfect Ceramics

While the Western world often favors perfection, traditional Japanese culture celebrates the beauty of transience and imperfection—best encapsulated in a term known as wabi-sabi. This expression is intimately tied to Buddhism (specifically Zen) and derived from the Three Marks of Existence (or sanbōin)—the Buddhist teaching that all things have “impermanence” (mujō), “suffering” or damage (ku), and “non-self” (kū). Therefore, items exhibiting wabi-sabi are seen to be more beautiful with age.

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Drawing
October 23, 2018

Disney Princesses Creatively Reimagined as Modern-Day Millennials

We’ve seen many creative Disney interpretations recently, including iconic princesses reimagined as empowered career women, Renaissance paintings, and even Game of Thrones characters. The timeless appeal of Disney princesses has also inspired the work of Kiev-based illustrator Daria Artemieva who shows how these fairytale characters would look like if they were modern-day millennials.

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Creative Products
October 19, 2018

Become a Real-Life Woodland Fairy With These Enchanting Accessories

Once upon a time, fairies might have only existed in your childhood imagination. However, self-taught costume artist Rosanna Long brings the tiny mystical beings to life with her handmade accessories. From human-sized wings to glittering fairy crowns, these enchanting pieces allow you to become a real-life woodland pixie. Long crafts her fairytale accessories from transparent plastic, ribbon, metal, gems, glass beads, flowers, leaves, and, of course, a sprinkling of fairy dust.

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Drawing
October 16, 2018

Illustrator Reimagines Iconic Artists as Modern-Day Hipsters

Have you ever wondered how history’s famous artists would look like if they were alive today? This is the concept for the work of Tel-Aviv-based illustrator Amit Shimoni, who has reimagined iconic artists such as Frida Kahlo and Vincent van Gogh as if they were modern-day hipsters. His colorful portrait paintings are part of his ongoing series, aptly called HIPSTORY. Shimoni has previously transformed world leaders from buttoned-up professionals into bohemian freethinkers.

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My Modern Met

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