Hanneke Rozemuller, an illustrator from a rural village in the Netherlands, creates textural images that depict the absurdity of life influenced by philosophy and psychology. Her illustrations, created on an iPad using Adobe Fresco, feature detachment and metaphysical themes, such as floating figures and thought bubbles. Hanneke draws inspiration from notable design influences like Push Pin Studios and artists such as Linda Merad. Predominantly using blue hues, her work explores emotions, internal worlds, and the duality of dreams and anxieties, blending subtle absurdism with editorial storytelling.
"Each of Hanneke's illustrations features the detachment of selves, allowing her figures to float through a metaphysical world that only the cartoon logic can allow; a ballooned, ghost-like ego floating above someone at a computer; or heads lined up in the form of a train's body, their thought bubbles becoming smoke stacks."
"Those are the themes that resonate with me most. Philosophy and psychology provide some puzzle pieces to work with so there are slightly less blanks to fill."
"Frequenting the use of blue hues, these illustrations evoke melancholy and emotional distance, but also explore internal worlds and the power of visualisation - the idea that the world can become either your dreams or your anxieties."
"It's the type of subtle absurdism, a type of low-fantasy, that lends itself to editorial work so well - allowing space for the words to do the talking and the images to represent the vastness of interpretation."
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