I simply started with my usual side profile face style for a few pieces and kept trying a more liberal/abstract approach for every subsequent piece until I ended up with what we have now. It was surprisingly intuitive to dissect the face shape into abstract compositions and still have it resemble a face somewhat.

The absolute limit at which a face is even recognizable. I think I achieved that in the ‘Roaring Tides’, ‘Scales’, and ‘Birth’ pieces, as the only thing remaining of a face are distorted eyes.

I would say in this particular collection they are all drawn from archetypal memory, or rather, an attempt to answer the question “How far can I go and still have this be recognizable?”, so I didn’t have to build a balance per se.

I’ve always liked the idea of a digital work resembling a traditional medium, almost to a point where you wouldn’t be able to tell them apart, so I draw my style from that thought.

Core theme definitely. Art itself is a sort of hallucination, as is every other “social construct” in society since the invention of language and money, both of which are also hallucinations, humanity was built on myths and they are central to our species in every way, every day.

I would say a similar answer to 5; since language itself is a hallucination from the beginning, that always interested me and the ways it shapes thoughts and organizes society like a living organism. The symbols present in this collection in particular are simple (eyes, stars, spheres/planets) on purpose, as to draw back from the origins of common themes early humans looked at and defined.

I started as a figurative illustrator, but that got sort of boring pretty fast. Since early 2021 or so, I have been pursuing that balance between recognizable figures and straight up abstractionism. Pure abstract is interesting on its own, but I think that is overdone in modernity, so I try to stay away from it where I can. Sometimes I indulge though.

Definitely early civilizations and Empires, in particular the period from the beginning of the Bronze Age until the Roman Empire. I am fascinated with History.

I’ve been interested in bringing this “ancient look” for a while now, as if they were inscriptions from an ancient time on wood or early paper. Ancient Greek and Egyptian art in particular comes to mind when I think of my inspirations, but so far I’ve stayed away from themes of battle and warfare and instead focused on the intrinsic. I will eventually try out those themes though.

I hope for the audience to at least think about these myths and hallucinations that we collectively have agreed upon for millennia to bring humanity where it is. That sort of interest sparked a huge curiosity in me and I hope it does for other people as well, and they feel motivated to learn more history and pursue knowledge in any field they might find interesting. Reality is crazier than fiction, I can assure that.