A selection of drawings by artist Akira Beard (previously featured here). Taken from his “LIFE Drawing” series, the images explore the idea of the subconscious and are intended to appear as if they simply manifested on the page themselves. According to Beard: “Looking at them, I often felt a stranger to myself as if someone else had drawn them.” See more below.
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