With Simo Santono from Accipiter STD (left), with his multi function table that he assembled in my studio.
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Born and settled in western Jakarta, began his career as a professional illustrator in August 2013.
Mostly spends midnight as the time for working in commercial and personal projects.
'Illustranesia', the pseudonym he's working under, is the actual identity of where the land he was born, raise, and struggle for.
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His work is much influenced by the scope of Platonic Solid, Medieval Romanticism, Morbid Surrealism, and Symbology.
It attracts him to cultivate and regenerate various unique compositions with certain meanings and stories.
Using only pen on paper, with the greyish-silver pallette is now being his focus to mastering with.
His works are widely known for collective exhibition, collaboration, poster, and predominantly for music industry.
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"How much for an artwork?" isn't the style he take to begin a project.
He's about to create the story, together with every musician that he ever worked with.
To build a strong correlation between music and art.
To conjure the distortion into the aesthetical form.
To complete the story through the words to be widely seen.
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Each work, is an honor.
Trust, behind the time consuming,
Hope, behind the tough conversation.
Those are, some reasons, why he chooses to keep survive as an artist.
And, you may be the one who would, or ever worked with him.
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From the Midnite Journal.
Septian Fajrianto