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Exchange Art<br />
You’ve mentioned influence by artist @MarkRyden, who I’m hoping most are familiar with, who else has been a big influence<br />
on your work, and in what ways do you incorporate their influence into you?<br />
“I believe that originality only means a good remix of influences. For me, I don’t really have a specific artist to be cited as<br />
my main influence (I actively avoid having any, and I am bad with remembering names anyway). I would put it like this; I<br />
have a vast visual library in my mind, and Mark Ryden is only one of the few that I can remember vividly. But as you can<br />
see, my art looks nothing like his stuff. If I were to make a list, I would say aesthetically, it’s a visual remix of master painters<br />
(Bosch, Michelangelo, Fra Angelico, Dali, etc.), pop-surrealist artists (Mark Ryden, Alex Gross, Interesnikazki brothers,<br />
etc.), religious arts/traditional cultures (Christian Iconography, old Islamic arts, Hinduism, Chinese, Japanese, Malay,
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