Mont Kiji Competition

Everything we took for granted, looks and feels different now. Mont Kiji Competition in on from now. Discover touching stories and the personal expressions that came out of lockdown.

Please vote your favorite by visiting @montkiji Instagram from mid-July.

The person with most Likes on Mont Kiji Instagram will win his or her artwork printed on luxury Silk Scarf.

Windows, Looking Outside

By Ali Saif, San Francisco-US, Painter

Indulge with the Nature

By Mohun Kumar, Uttar Pradesh-Gautum Bodh Nagar, India, Fashion Graphic Designer

“Nature is the Master, Always attracts me. Whenever she creates, we always copy her. I had made rain deer with forest in this painting mixed with canvas effect”

Spring Without Me

By Chloe Demangel, from Lyon but lock downed in Montbéliard, Franche-Comté, Student in Textile Design at l'ENSBA (Beaux Arts de Lyon)

“This year, I was to celebrate my twentieth birthday. This year, I was going to share to laugh to meet. This year I had to study. This year I wanted to travel. But this year, the plans have changed. I had to say goodbye to the city, say goodbye to my friends. And I realize that something is missing, the power of distance, the fear of the future, guilt, the difficulty of preparing the caramel, anger. So I try. I'm trying to do. I try to live.Small disaster under the sun and the emerging flowers, extinct  city center, time passes, spring without me and my twenty years on the balcony"

The Cascade

By Elise Manechez, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, Human Ressource

This miniature symbolizes femininity as a source of fertility for nature and humanity, it is the symbol of the force of life. It is inspired by Anahita, the goddess of all water on Earth in Persian mythology. In this miniature, Anahita is born in the source of the waterfall as a mermaid and comes to give life to the earth. The miniature is built in the form of a spiral, the movement of the water in the waterfall, illustrates the life force whose perpetual movement continues despite obstacles.

Jing

By Pomegranate Girl , Singapore, Artist

“It’s a personal reflection on the times we’re facing and about my daily reminder to not be anxious about the future. Collectively and even as an individual, we all need to stay in a position of quiet and steadfastness. To see beauty in chaos, despite the adversity”

Dreaming Beyond the Windows

By Elena Veran, St-Jean-de Luz, France, Student in Textile Design at Beaux Arts de Lyon

“I chose to represent lockdown through windows, spaces which offer a view of freedom but which hold us back. I have neither a garden nor a balcony, like many people in France. So I decided to offer designs inspired by this desire that pushes us outwards. Representing several activities that take place at the windows such as reading, napping, gardening, and applause at 8 pm. Lockdown in my opinion is a break time which is granted to us so that we all reflect on the values of things, our freedoms, our chances .. and which allows us to refocus on the essentials. For me the window was an escape from this lockdown allowing me to dream and hope."

Time suspended

By Benjamin Maurice, Orléans, France, Geologist

“It is a composition of small beauty petals captured by my camera during my geological adventures.They remind me that Spring is missing this year and these moments of lockdown give me the impression of a life 'on hold'Each of its flowers remind us how fragile and ephemeral life is in this tough universe and that we must always offer to others the best of ourselves to overcome the harshness and adversity that can strike us at any time”

Happy Bubble

By Eric Fish, Paris-France, Consultant

“I always thought that I live in my own little bubble. I finally get to experience my life in a bubble and with a person I love. Everyday is a blessing and every task a joy. What I need is simple what makes me happy is within my reach”

Blossom

By Isabelle Marsh, Manhattan Beach, California, University Student

“This piece commemorates the bravery and resilience of frontline healthcare workers, the soldiers fighting this war (hence the camouflage mask). The person in the painting is emotional and struggling, but determined nonetheless to exhibit strength and overcome the trauma. The flowers symbolize the beauty amidst the pain. Despite the overflowing negativity in our lives and in the media, doctors and nurses allow for color and hope to rise above it.”

How to Deal with Coronavirus

By Yuna Kim, Seoul-Korea, Elementary School Student

Coronavirus is trying to attack the child, but fortunately the soap is protecting. What I mean is that by washing the hands with soap, it can protect you from the virus The kid is laughing at the virus.The face of the Coronavirus is angry because it can't hurt the kid because of the soapWith Soap, I can project myself from the virus!”

Eternity

By Nene Tatsumi, Japan, Student in Law

“Though this work, I wanted to express the passion of the life and full of joy. Now we are passing a very hard time. However, seeing the beautiful flowers, especially which has the passionate color, I can feel the beauty of life and hope. I named this "Eternity”, with a lot of hope of the future.”

La Peinture , Littérature de la Matière

By Jean Piton, Lyon-France, Artist

It is also a story that is revealed. If I reduce the pattern to its simplest representation, what I call pattern is just a basic minimum shape at the moment when it can only be reduced to itself. It is for my creations what is the touch of the brush for painting.
So like a text, a story, appears the story of this form of complexity. Just like a book that has found its format to be closer to HUMAN, the study of silk was essential to develop this proximity.
Each creation is a particular story. Each story is the sign of an artistic reference: history. And each being is enriched by this complicity.

Life in spite of Lockdown

By Grace Lalande, Versailles, France, Young Artist

I enjoyed my pretty room during confinement by reading a lot of books and doing lots of drawings.

Eat at Home

By Patricia Amsellem, Paris-France, Artiste sur porcelaine

“This creation was realized during the lockdown with this new hastag #eatathome to remind values as the one of cooking at home for ourself or the loved ones.A source of well being offered by the varieties of colorful and graphics pieces."

Solitude

By Jane Wrightson, Liverpool-UK, Architect

“ Since lockdown this is my sanctuary; a tiny back yard surrounded by simple walls and open to the sky. I have planted seeds in pots, and I am nurturing them. It has become a magical place made from the memories of all the gardens I have known. Here I can sit in intimacy and feel the heat from the sun, hear the wind stirring the leaves and smell the earth. I can dream.”.

Féminité Recroquevillée

By Raphaële Anfré, Brittany, France, Painter and Fashion Designer

My artistic work illustrates my research of Femininity.I am inspired by my own story. The story of a child who became a girl, then a woman, in search of her Femininity. I am inspired by the female body, my body, but also that of other women. I observe and I transcribe. Often in "close-up", for a better view. And I simplify. Almost to the point of exaggeration. To lose us, make us think, push us to look better. And while undressing these women's bodies, I dress them in colors and materials.

Read moreMy art is a search for Femininity. Femininity often too little revealed.During the confinement, protection was discussed. We each had to protect ourselves from others and for others. I painted this painting, "Curled Femininity", with the idea of ​​reminding the importance of protecting your own femininity. Because this same femininity protects the body of women.

Invasion

By Mélodie D'Incamps, locked down at Grasse, South of France, Director of Photographie and Photographer

During the lockdown, I found myself alone in a house in the South of France surrounded by olive trees. I lived there almost like a hermit. Little by little, I realized that these trees, which I had loved since childhood, had been abandoned for more than 10 years. These noble trees, invaded by brambles and ivy were covered with dead branches. I started with pruning shears and started trimming them from morning to night without stopping. At the end of the lockdown, I had pruned around fifty trees and now plans to restart the olive oil production activity. These images retrace the process from the invasion of the brambles in the trees to the time when I burned the branches that I cut.

Read more about the rules

Try below steps, whoever gets most Likes will win!

  1. Make a visual creation: draw, paint, photograph, calligraph, collage...
  2. Take a picture: preferably 8000x8000px 300dpi
  3. WeTransfer to hello@montkiji.com