Creator and responsible for Wasted Rita is a graphic designer and illustrator conceived in New Jersey, working and living in Lisbon. She was born a natural agent provocateur, sarcastic as needed and a full-time thinker who must write about life, human behaviors and play with words to keep breathing. www.ritabored.blogspot.com, an almost-daily-updated blog that got famous for its dark humor drawings and crude hand lettered statements, that has been featured in countless art & graphic design websites, several magazines and a few books.
She had her work exhibited in Paris, London, Berlin, Bochum, throughout Portugal, and freelanced for a variety of worldwide clients such as Ginza Magazine, Doolittle Mag, Hurley and Red Bull.
She studied in a religious college and grew up listening to Black Flag, turning out to be a harsh mixture between Jesus Christ and punk-rock. Rough and rude at first sight, above all, just a passionate kid doing what she thinks she should.
She had her work exhibited in Paris, London, Berlin, Bochum, throughout Portugal, and freelanced for a variety of worldwide clients such as Ginza Magazine, Doolittle Mag, Hurley and Red Bull.
She studied in a religious college and grew up listening to Black Flag, turning out to be a harsh mixture between Jesus Christ and punk-rock. Rough and rude at first sight, above all, just a passionate kid doing what she thinks she should.
answered 29th November 2013
1- When did you decide to pursue art/illustration as a career? Career and decisions – these two terms are not part of my dictionary, specially put together in the same sentence. I remember being 5 years old and already preferring drawing to people, so I guess: first, I’ve always been a really intelligent person and, second, I didn't choose art, art chose me.
Even thought nowadays you can only decide to pursue a career as an artist or illustrator when you start being able to make a living out of it.
Even thought nowadays you can only decide to pursue a career as an artist or illustrator when you start being able to make a living out of it.
2- What are your goals as an artist? Doing what I want like I want or, in other words, teasing human beings.
3- What's your favourite place to developed your ideas? Earth? Even though I cannot be 100% about it because I’ve never tried other places besides this
3- What's your favourite place to developed your ideas? Earth? Even though I cannot be 100% about it because I’ve never tried other places besides this
4- Where in the world is your favourite place to see art? The art of being able to see art in anything or situation, that’s the only art I like to master throughout the day.
5- What exhibit, that you have seen within the last year, has most influenced you? An exhibition my (Finnish) friends forced me to attend at the Finnish Institute in Berlin. I am a mixture of an anti-art kind of artist and an extremely difficult to impress kind of person, so - forcing me is really the easiest or only way to get me going to a sculpture and video exhibition at an embassy related institute. The ironic thing was being the only visitor who sat for one hour
and got completely drowned watching a video / documentary / interview. It was a list of (around) 30 questions on life made to different Serbian Kosovo War survivors. From death to happiness all the really important subjects in life were approached and I ended tearing up at the Finnish Institute in Berlin.planet.
5- What exhibit, that you have seen within the last year, has most influenced you? An exhibition my (Finnish) friends forced me to attend at the Finnish Institute in Berlin. I am a mixture of an anti-art kind of artist and an extremely difficult to impress kind of person, so - forcing me is really the easiest or only way to get me going to a sculpture and video exhibition at an embassy related institute. The ironic thing was being the only visitor who sat for one hour
and got completely drowned watching a video / documentary / interview. It was a list of (around) 30 questions on life made to different Serbian Kosovo War survivors. From death to happiness all the really important subjects in life were approached and I ended tearing up at the Finnish Institute in Berlin.planet.
6- Do you collect anything? Feelings, facebook followers, porn screenshots and sketchbooks. You can never have enough of these four things.
7- If you could choose anyone to see your work, who would he or she be? I usually answer ‘no one in particular’ to this kind of questions, but lately I’ve been finding myself wondering if Lena Dunham would find my work interesting enough to accept going out with me for some alcohol overdose.
8- What is the greatest compliment anyone has ever paid to you regarding your artwork? ‘Oh darling, this shit is just words...’ by some random pseudo vain artificial super deep and intellectual diva art connoisseur guy walking though my work at an art fair I was taking part of in London, back in 2012.
9- In which walls would you like to see your work exposed in 10/20 years? Let me be really cliché on this one and say in the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. But I would also like to start writing massively giant statements in a very specific street wall of every city I travel to.
10. Last one, Who would you love to see answering this same questions? I usually answer ‘no one in specific’ to this kind of questions, but because I know that can sound super empty and detached of me and be deeply frustrating and annoying for the person who is interviewing - I will go with Jesus.
10. Last one, Who would you love to see answering this same questions? I usually answer ‘no one in specific’ to this kind of questions, but because I know that can sound super empty and detached of me and be deeply frustrating and annoying for the person who is interviewing - I will go with Jesus.
