They started in a shared studio in Miami's Little Haiti, drawn to the spectacle of vibrant colour pouring out of Haitian export businesses — bales of discarded clothing sorted and piled in improbable rainbows. Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz began collecting what others threw away. Then they started building worlds from it.

Fabian De La Flor works a full-time job at The Miami Herald, raises a family, and makes emotionally charged drawings of city landscapes that read like a personal timeline — each figure a photograph from his own life. He did a mural in Wynwood. The V&A hasn't called yet, but the Museo de Arte de El Salvador has. This is the conversation.

Zakee Shariff has always had one aim — to touch people through her work. Since founding her studio in 1998, that hasn't changed, even as the practice has expanded from fashion and textiles into spiritually guided painting, coaching, and collaborative projects from Chicago to Tokyo. The V&A bought one of her prints. She has drawn on walls with Cody Hudson and talked life and the universe with Futura 2000 at 2am in Japan. This is her story.