This art is interactive!
How to operate:
1) Download Artivive app here, or through your app store (it’s free)
2) Once the app is downloaded, open it. Artivive may ask for permission to access your camera- hit allow.
3) Once you’ve allowed access to your camera, please point your phone to the artwork and watch!
Some additional tips…
Try to capture the full artwork in your camera frame when pointing your phone towards the art.
Artivive works best with minimal obstructions in front of the art.
Escape to Space
by Ashanti Fortson
Ashanti Fortson is a Baltimore based cartoonist, illustrator, editor, and professor with a deep interest in difficult emotions, quiet moments, and the rifts and connections between human beings. Their work explores transience and reflection through a tenderhearted lens, and a good comic essay will always brighten their day.
Ashanti's short comic Leaf Lace won the 2021 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic, and was nominated in the categories of Outstanding Artist and Outstanding Online Comic. Ashanti also won a Prism Award as part of the Heartwood: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy anthology.
Ashanti is currently working on their debut graphic novel, Cress & Petra, from HarperCollins.