An illustrator, doodler, fiddler, and “pruller” in general. My attention has shifted from flat paper to three-dimensional space. I mess with humor, amusement, and spontaneity, often accompanied by playful indecency or critical and sharp irony.
My masks are new, contemporary folkloric figures. Using humor as a strategy, these figures highlight current themes. They criticize them, blow them up, twist them around and question the ways we deal with them. By turning these figures into hand-made, wearable masks, those themes become physical and tangible and suddenly seem not that far from home.

Through photography, these exaggerated and sometimes absurd reflections of today’s world are placed in familiar, everyday settings. This makes them into living, believable characters, a bit too alive for comfort. Who are these creatures? Why do they look like they do? Do they belong here? Are they even real?

@kobe_vandenhauwe
vandenhauwe.kobe@gmail.com