illustration | Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Illustration: Delusion Angel

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“Is it bright where you are and have the people changed? Does it make you happy you’re so strange?”

- Smashing Pumpkins
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illustration | Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Illustration: Secrets

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Part of a series of illustrations.

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photography | Monday, September 14th, 2009

Photography: The Endless – Dream & Death

This is a preview of a photo shoot inspired by The Endless, the main characters in Neil Gaiman’s series The Sandman. Mark and I and a group of good friends got together one Saturday, played dress up and shot a series of character portraits.

These are portraits of Dream, the brooding Sandman himself, and his older sister Death – most times perky, sometimes moody and always, always around.
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Dream
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“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.” – Neil Gaiman, Preludes and Nocturnes

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Death
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“It won’t make a lot of difference, in the long run, will it? One by one, you will all come to me.” - Neil Gaiman, Endless Nights

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More photos of the other Endless (Destiny, Desire, Despair, Destruction and Delirium) to be posted soon.

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illustration | Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Editorial Work: AIM + UAAP

I’ve recently been working with art director Jerry Manalili who he has given me the opportunity to illustrate for the Asian Institute of Managemend and the University of the Asia and the Pacific. The work below is for their university publications, these are full page drawings and I’m glad to have the chance to get my work out there.

This one is about political representation: