About

I am an illustrator working at the intersection of anime, avant-garde fashion, and a musical foundation built over more than a decade of classical piano training. Drawn to duality in all its many forms: Eastern and Western, finished and raw, human and digital. 

Raised in The Netherlands, rooted in Asian culture, now building in Canada & Japan. I have never felt like a tourist in any of these worlds, but not fully native either. That in-between state is where my art finds its voice.

The philosophical influences come from fashion more than fine art for me. Yohji Yamamoto’s rejection of conventional beauty, Rick Owens’ embrace of darkness and imperfection, the wounded poetry of Ann Demeulemeester. None of them chased perfection, all of them found something more true in its absence. Having felt the weight of perfectionism most of my life, I’ve slowly grown to reject it and instead have become captivated by what is imperfect.

This attraction to imperfection eventually turned into something closer to a belief about what makes creation human.

In an era where AI is on the rise and generates images at a scale no human can match, every piece made by hand is a quiet act of resistance, an attempt to inspire others to continue to create despite a world increasingly optimized for speed, perfection & automation. Not just to preserve human art, but to prove it still carries something that cannot be replaced.