Danny van Ryswyk
Amsterdam-based artist Danny van Ryswyk creates strange, surreal artwork that evokes a sense of eerie melancholy, Victorian portraiture, and monstrous absurdity, using 3D technology.
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Lori Earley
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{via the ever-brilliant Coilhouse blog}
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