damn dinika (@damn_dinika)
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💅🏽 multidisciplinary hun, innit
🥷🏾 artist / writer / creative producer
🌚 dxb x s.africa
maybe green is also a state of mind, bby 🍏 a little roundup of life lately-ish: green fields, fingers, flags, screens, spaces, evergreens and and and ☘️🍬💚🐢 — #green #dubai #visualdiary #moodboard #johannesburg
that time we paused traffic for @diesel 🌚 — creative direction: @betweenusboysstudio photography: @niquitabento hair & makeup: @deepikadeshtamakeup style: @monique.spearman production: me — #diesel #streetstyle #forsuccessfulliving
vibe-coding a bit of yellow, bby 🙂↔️ — #yellow #visualdiary #moodboard
recovered these from an almost-erased drive. so here’s something about finding the bigger picture 🕵🏾♀️ p.s. joburg — ilysm <3 — 📷: @fujifilm_sa x-t20 (except for that selfie obvs)
📌 sensitive — as in wide awake, as in giving a fck, as in willing to feel it all, as in willing to be surprised. as in refusing to be numbed or distracted or or or 🫶🏽 —— #wip #textbasedart #wordoftheday
here and there. mostly here: 🙂↔️ — #winterthings #southafricanart #sculpturegardens
keep it moving, bby 🙂↕️ — #keepitmoving #traveldiary #chocolate #fitcheck
That time I took a sip of Windhoek and it was gloriousss. Namibz, see u soon 🌞 Highlights include: blushing skies, independence museums & questions of memory, public architecture things, boogie-villas 💐, student art at the national gallery type things, great albums (!), fast & furious things & & & 🫡
not now bby. not ever 🤞🏽 📍: more work in progress / meditations through the madness / defences against the distractions 🕵🏾♀️: frame 4 is me looking up the definition of “distraction” to cross-check wiki’s, only for apple to find ‘nothing’. distraction on distraction? 👊🏽: frame 5 is forever — #wip #textart #inkonpaper #workinprogress
lately bby: an endless sunday in johannesburg 🙂↕️
circling back to @loewe’s *first* ramadan campaign led by **the** @betweenusboysstudio 🩶 — *team* creative direction/casting/production: @betweenusboysstudio photography: @xx_niquita_xx production: @ardacreative & @damn_dinika post-production: @dahoulstudio production assistance: @why_tahlia hair: @deenaalawaid & @gaelsastremakeup makeup: @sara.ymakeup & @gaelsastremakeup style: @monique.spearman — *featured talent* @sarahtaibah @sarahmalhashmi @huseinalireza — #loewe #loewesilver #production #ramadancollection #fashionphotography
because life. — #wip #textart #notestoself #inkonpaper