Kika Da Silva
Text by Kika DS, foreword of "Polar Fury" (Punkbook)
I am a Loner.
Like a female version of Saint Exupery’s ‘Le petit Prince’… I wander around this World… wherever curiosity may lead me.
Question: ‘What have You done with your Life ?’ I am fascinated by every person I meet & their stories… What do they really do with their allotted time on Mother Earth ?
I am specialised in Trusting Charlatans...
& constantly fluctuate between condemning mankind as the most arrogant and selfish Creature ever to have walked on this planet & my veneration for each and every Human Being. I tolerate man’s weakness… have a deep Fascination & Admiration for the creative, head-strong or even pathetic Struggle for Survival that symbolises Man…
I Love what I Hate….
Sometimes forgetting the difference… sometimes finding it difficult to distinguish between the 2.
In my Life everybody is welcome: artists, freaks, musicians, beggars and millionaires, health-freaks and junkies… cooks, full-time ‘Smart asses’, blunderers… American Dreams or people that just… fumble or stumble their way through life.
My baggage on this survival trip through life contains Love, Curiosity…
& the inexplicable urge to create something valid out of it: a book, music, a film, a videoclip, but it could also be a chocolate mousse… a drawing or a special gift for a beloved.
I Love music in all it’s genres, the feeling on sea-water on my skin, chocolate, champagne, driving and listening to music… dancing with my feet in the sea, getting lost in museums, preferably contemporary art.
TIME is my Lord and Master
Time will always judge true Loves, Friendships and the importance of good Art… or crap.
Express Your individuality, by the way you live… the way you look… through art, through music…
I find this a valid endeavour
Kika D. is an established photographer,author and producer of short movies. Her effervescent, exhilarating and passionate personality lies at the foundation of all her work. Each and every piece of artwork she creates,revolves around images and music,usually with a heavy dose of emotions and all of it wrapped into some form of storytelling.
Born in Belgium,Kika D. has travelled all over the world,but lost her heart to Ibiza, where she resides if not in Belgium or roaming other parts of the planet.
Her inspiration and the concepts she creates come from a vast number of thoughts, events or circumstances that she finds herself in or is attracted to,each sparking contemporary ideas which she then brings to life in numerous ways, whether it be through books,photographs,music videoclips or movies.
Her latest project,whereby she joined forces with musicproducer & video-editing wizard Jörgen Sonck,is a short movie called 'Island of Lost Souls'. Before she could start with this complex project she bundled her reseach in a book called "Fé, Nochas Blancas" (with compilation CD) This experimental 40 minute film catches the heart and soul of every viewer.
All the images were filmed in Ibiza:
There's so much pain under all this "partying"
The essential message of the movie being what would you do if you're hurt, if you don't feel okay - do you smile, go out and party? The term best used to describe this movie would be an 'inner road' movie, non definable whereby each individual gets out of it what they feel they need to.
Mail Kika D.@ ibizamoonchild@yahoo.com
www.myspace.com/kikadasilva
www.myspace.com/islandoflostplayer
Website Music: "Breathing" by Jörgen Sonck, Caroline Van Vlasselaer & Kika Da Silva