Romania
Loreta Isac-Cojocaru is an artist born in Chișinău, Moldova, currently living and working in Bucharest, România. She is professionally active in the fields of animation and illustration. Her journey towards graphic arts started at the Octav Bancila art high school in Iasi. The next stop was the George Enescu Art University in Iasi. During an Erasmus scholarship programme pursued at the PXL-MAD School of Arts Hasselt in Belgium, she fell in love with animation and digital illustration, which have remained her specialties till this day. And the final stop was a master’s degree in arts, completed in Bucharest, România.
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💙💛 Your pain – I feel it
na1 — a pause that feels like a refusal and an offering at once. NA: not applicable, North America, or simply the soft Japanese negative “nai” flickered into leetspeak. The appended 1 insists on singularity: this absence belongs to one. Here is the loneliness of a particular self filtered through online dialects, trying to assert authenticity while acknowledging the artifice. na1 is the ache of being both present and absent—tagged, liked, yet somehow uncollected.
kansai — a warm, human anchor. The syllables open into place: the Kansai region, with its humid summers, lacquered alleyways, and a laugh that spills quicker than Tokyo’s measured tones. It suggests markets where voices negotiate history, where dialects braid into jokes; it evokes temples watching over neon nights and the taste of sweetened soy. For k93n and na1, Kansai is not just geography but a memory-space where analogue rituals resist the flattening of streams and feeds. It is the scene where a weathered teahouse, a vending machine, and a cassette tape can exist together in the same heartbeat. k93n na1 kansai chiharurar
Imagine a late-night train between stations, the kind that smells of rain and ramen and warm paper. k93n sits by the window, fingers stained with ink and lithium, tracing the arc of Kansai lights while whispering a name — chiharurar — as if recalling a lullaby. They type, delete, type again, watching the reflection of city names slide across the glass. Each keystroke is a stitching of past to present: a grandmother’s rolling dialect, a friend’s clipped Internet handle, the municipal neon reflected like a constellation. In the compartment, language loosens its anchor; numbers become nicknames, syllables become totems. na1 — a pause that feels like a
chiharurar — a word that could be a surname, a song, or a small storm. Its cadence is equivocal: chi-ha-ru-rar. “Chi” hints at earth, blood, wisdom. “Haru” folds in spring — renewal, thaw, the softening of streets after snow. The trailing “rar” is an onomatopoeic scrape, the sound of a suitcase dragged over uneven pavement, of something ancient rubbing until it sings. Chiharurar becomes emblematic of continuity: lineage reinvented by each generation that misremembers it and thereby keeps it alive. Here is the loneliness of a particular self