ILLUSTRATION, PHOTOSHOP
This is my cultural homage inspired by Japanese artist Junji Ito’s manga ‘Uzumaki’.
UZUMAKI
Uzumaki (Japanese for ‘spiral’ or ’swirl’) was written and illustrated by magaka Junji Ito between 1998-1999. Uzumaki is fixated with repetitive spirals, which curses the town of Kurouzu-cho through unnatural perversions and deformities of the environment. The townsfolk become obsessed with spirals, embodying an overbearing presence of helplessness from the spirals' inescapable corruption.
My portrait is a self-refelction on mortality, inspired by themes of cosmic horror that fuels feelings of existential dread.
I approached emulating the immersive details of Junji Ito’s illustrations through Monochrome line art, spirals, and cosmic horror themes that led to me producing an eerie, uneasy quality. I developed this through Photoshop as an animated gif that captured the true immersion and movement of spirals.
