Johnson Tsang’s baby sculptures provoke an immediate, visceral reaction. Confusion. Discomfort. A nervous laugh. The figures are unmistakable. Milky white, porcelain-like babies with oversized heads, frozen mid-action as they wrestle, collide, and scramble over one another. The effect is absurd and unsettling all at once. If there were ever a case for a genre called “crazy milk babies,” this might be it.
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Wild Art by Ana Teresa Barboza
Peruvian artist Ana Teresa Barboza explores the boundaries between human and animal through her intricate and provocative embroidery. Her work transforms fabric into immersive, tactile worlds where humans and wildlife coexist in ways that are both intimate and unsettling. The scenes are carefully constructed yet feel alive, a testament to Barboza’s skill in marrying technique with narrative.
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Illustrations by Julia Trybala
The figures in Trybala’s work often appear detached, bored, or mildly unimpressed, expressions flattened just enough to feel intentional. Faces are rendered with a kind of charming indifference, eyes heavy-lidded, mouths barely reacting. That emotional restraint becomes the hook. The characters feel self-aware, as though they are in on the joke but not interested in explaining it.
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Adam Tan Paintings
Color is handled with control. Palettes tend to feel smooth and cool, reinforcing the work’s composed atmosphere. Nothing feels loud or reactive. Instead, the surfaces feel considered, almost meditative. This composure allows the symbolic elements to resonate more strongly, as there is space for them to breathe.
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Artist Marilyn Minter, HD Oil on Canvas
Marilyn Minter’s paintings operate at a scale and intensity that often confuses the eye before it clarifies the mind. At first glance, her work reads as hyper-real photography. The surface is so sharp, so meticulously rendered, that the instinctive reaction is technological rather than painterly. What camera was used. What lens. What lighting setup. The revelation that these images are oil on canvas arrives slowly, and when it does, it reframes everything.
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The Blue Boy by Javier Cortina
The Blue Boy is a photographic series that understands the power of restraint. Photographed by Javier Cortina and featuring model Jonatan Argiz, the work unfolds slowly, allowing color, body, and landscape to merge without urgency. The title is literal, but the effect is atmospheric rather than illustrative.
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Pop Culture Portaits by artist Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo
Álvaro Tapia Hidalgo’s pop culture portraits thrive on exaggeration with intention. These are not neutral likenesses or polite tributes. They are high-saturation, high-impact interpretations that treat celebrity faces as visual symbols rather than subjects meant to be reproduced faithfully. Color becomes the language, and personality becomes the structure.
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Pourchassé for Graveravens ft. Briana Wall
Pourchassé unfolds as a fashion fantasy rooted in tension, atmosphere, and performance. Shot in black and white for Graveravens.com, the editorial places model Briana Wall in a wooded setting where glamour and pursuit exist side by side. The series feels cinematic and deliberate, drawing on classic fashion storytelling while leaning into something darker and more instinctual.
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Mixed Media Portraits by Bernhard Handick
Bernhard Handick’s mixed media portraits exist in a space where familiarity becomes unstable. At first glance, the faces feel recognizable, drawn from pop culture and fashion photography, images we have been trained to read instantly. But Handick interrupts that recognition just long enough to make it strange again. What emerges is a body of work that feels seductive, fractured, and quietly surreal. The foundation of these portraits often begins with photography, particularly imagery tied to celebrity, editorial fashion, or mass media. Handick then disrupts that surface through manipulation. Photographs are layered, spliced, and overpainted. Faces blur into other faces. Features are obscured, multiplied, or partially erased. The act of painting…
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Sufjan Stevens, “Year of the Tiger”
Not a new song but a new official video for a song. Year of the Tiger was released back in 2001 but recently has been brought back to life by director and animator Geoffrey Hoskinson. The video has colorful animations of abstract lions slowly coming closer staring right at you, eventually multiplying and making a final creation. It’s all very hypnotizing. I like the paper like feeling the animation had. Check it out:
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Geometrical Portraits by Boris Draschoff
“These are the central concepts of my artistic essence. The transformation of motives therefore is a clearing of reality through optical reduction and refraction of contents. In this way it allows each observer an exempt view on the essential marrow. In this connection my process follows strictly the etymological translation of the word kaleidoscope, which has its roots in the greek language and means ‘to see beautiful forms’.” -Boris Draschoff, Berlin, Germany borisdraschoff.com
