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Playful Illustrations by Yau Hoong Tang Layer Optical Illusions into Imaginative Tales — Colossal

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A stack of books also appear as a building and place for people to read with a tree branch growing from the top covers

All photos © Yau Hoong Tang, shared with permission

In Detrimental Area, Yau Hoong Tang derives imaginative and expansive storylines from minimal visuals. As its title suggests, the continuing sequence performs with the connection between presence and absence, layering optical illusions, embedded imagery, and different narrative cues inside a single work.

The Kuala Lumpur-based illustrator is keen on weaving collectively a number of plots. In a single work, an ink splatter additionally turns into wildlife inhabiting the world, with in one other, a creature seems as a flying goose or a fox relying on the place the viewer focuses. “I like utilizing unfavourable house in my illustrations because it creates extra dynamics to an paintings and opens up a visible dialog,” he tells Colossal. “Its thought frightening nature invitations viewers to find the hidden meanings and spark creativeness.”

Whereas Detrimental Area is created digitally, Tang is at present engaged on a brand new assortment that returns to extra conventional, analog mediums. Store limited-edition prints, and discover extra of his playful illustrations on Behance and Instagram.

 

An ink splatter also appears as wildlife inhabit a round world

A flying bird also appears as a child flying paper airplanes

An overturned bottle also appears as a man climbing a mountain

Left, a building disintegrates into birds, on right, three guitars form four bird figures when overlapped

A cityscape nestles in the top of a leaf

Four images, a person wearing headphones with a guitar player sitting on one earphone, two giraffes at sunset, an infinity sign with camels in the lower left corner, a fedora with a band that also has a figure embedded in it

hands in tan and black that all appear to be grabbing for money

#digital
#optical phantasm
#Yau Hoong Tang

 

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