Visual art

A third refraction. Alongside the writing and the filmmaking there are images: digital illustrations drawn slowly, and photography and modelling collaborations made with others. Different material, same light.

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Digital illustration

A whale drifts between the neon signs of a crowded shopping street at night — Whale over the city

A cyber empress with ornate hairpins, wired into a rose-tinted city skyline — Empress

Detailed line drawing of a crowded Shinjuku shopping street in Tokyo — Shinjuku nightscape

The Shinjuku street scene mid-inking on the iPad, pencil in hand — Shinjuku nightscape — inking

A mechanical arm being inked on the iPad, stylus hovering over the linework — Mech arm — inks

Eighties-style fashion illustration of a woman with bold makeup, titled Faces — Faces

The Faces illustration taking shape in Procreate — Faces — in progress

A figure arched backwards, entwined in ribbons of red — Tendrils

The Tendrils figure as clean line art in Procreate — Tendrils — line art

A kneeling android figure with a long braid, surrounded by lilies — Lilies

A figure at a round window, a pink city rising outside — Porthole

A figure wrapped in flowering vines against a pink background — Portraits

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Modelling & collaborations

Black-and-white photograph: a figure on a windswept hill, black fabric billowing like wings against the clouds — By Nona Limmen

Walking through an industrial space in a metallic blue jacket, for Concrete Store — By Oifik, for Concrete Store

Low-angle portrait in a shining magenta jacket against the sky, for Concrete Store — By Oifik, for Concrete Store

A woman between office towers bathed in deep red light — By Pascal Verheul

Black-and-white multiple exposure with a hand mirror, faces repeating across the frame — By Andrea Mete

Mirrored composition: twin figures with blue bob haircuts praying before a pyramid-shaped building — By Tarona

Self-portrait at an arcade air-hockey table in neon light, racer suit and long black hair — Self-portrait

Museum campaign poster by Bete van Meeuwen: portrait in a plastic-covered jacket holding sunglasses — Plastic Crush — Tropenmuseum Amsterdam

Pencil-drawn portrait with long hair and dark lipstick, by illustrator thefoxismine — By thefoxismine

Triple-exposure pop print in red and blue, modelled by Xiang, by Michiel Walrave — By Michiel Walrave

Large collage portrait in red modelled by Xiang, by Pris Roos, exhibited at Kunsthal Rotterdam — By Pris Roos — Kunsthal Rotterdam