Hieroglyph Pins and Buttons

Pencil print with character Krau

distressed stone ankh

Introducing "Caving Creatures," a captivating collection of modernized illustrations that draw inspiration from the timeless allure of cave art, petroglyphs, animal petroglyphs, human petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and ancient signs and symbols. Each artwork in this collection brilliantly combines smart design with a touch of irony, bringing to life a world of intelligent and humorous interpretations of our ancestors' creations. These cute and elegant renderings reinvigorate these ancient motifs with a stylish twist, seamlessly blending the past with the present.

This design is based of a talatat from Amarna in Ancient Egypt. Amarna was an 18th Dynasty city established by one of the most notorious pharaohs, Akhenaten. A talatat was a standardized piece of limestone that was used for construction and often decorated in beautiful imagery, sometimes relating to the worship of the Aten. Here the talatat represented a field of ripe barley, swaying in the breeze. I've recreated this as a block print and printed it by hand in before scanning it.

Seshat!

Collab

Maat - the balance of the world,

An original piece from the series “Zi hua”: I wanted to learn to write Chinese characters, but I've lost control! I have always been fascinated by the art of ideograms, and when I was in China I spent hours and hours, enchanted to observe people trying to dip the brush into water, and to draw on the ground ephemeral signs intended to evaporate, with controlled and sensual movements. But my nature is baroque! The gesture that I started cannot be stopped, the hand begins to draw on the paper some convolutions, scrolls and doodles, at first timid, but soon prevailing over the same character and its meaning! And the gesture that remains, even if free and decorative, is extremely rewarding for me!

Japanese style black dragon image