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Burning, drawing, and animating the will to live (kultivēt dzīvotgribu) into form.
Krista Kristiāna Mežavilka is a Latvian artist and visual designer based in Riga, in her third year of audiovisual communication (Motion. Image. Sound.) at the Latvian Academy of Art.
Her practice spans burned metal works, watercolor illustration, and animation, unified by the philosophy "kultivēt dzīvotgribu" (cultivating the will to live).
Recent works are the twelve-panel metal installation "jauna lapa, jauna diena" (2026), the stop-motion cradle loop "Šūpulis" (2025).