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Gold foil relics, decorated with pearls, collaged eyes and warhol-like pictures framing the piece.

A tribute to my Ammu, who gave me my cultural heritage which influenced this work a great deal.

part of a series of "relics" meant to replace flawed functions of the body.

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Sequence made based on a short story i wrote. The story has a very dark storyline that contrasts heavily with the eclectic, stylish way the character carries herself.

Water soluble graphite on paper, 2019.

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Sketches made during a stormy evening.

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Scary things that happen in my dreams...

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A small look into a zine i made about the month of January, which is my month of birth.

Using images that i associate with the month, i risoprinted this 20 page zine.

A5, 2020

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A zine i made during the first so called "lockdown" of the Netherlands, in early march. Using the events happening in my own life, and the world at the time, i began drawing as a way to deal with the stress that came with all the changes in my life.

Because i did not want to portray the events in a way that would directly represent the pandemic in the litereral way, i shifted towards using fantasy and my imagination. As a result, i made this zine about a virus attacking a world full of fantastic, colorfull, crazy beings.

A lot of the inspiration for the layouts of the zine came from old manuscrips like the "voynich manuscript" and the diary of colonisers of the past.

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Silkscreen print, the idea for this print came to me when i visited the old part of Dhaka, Bangladesh. I came across some hookah lounges, and saw woman secretly smoking hookah, which they are not allowed to do in that part of Bangladesh. I gave the woman in this print the freedom to make her own choices.

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A series of cards i made inspired by the letter M. The letter M has a lot of meanings in the esotherical and religious spheres and i took inspiration from the fact that all theories and meanings of the letter seem to derive from Jesus's mother, Mary.

I made the cards using a combination of techniques. I started collaging images, which i printed on a plastic sheet, before cyanotyping them.

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A video "collage" i made using short clips trying to capture the vision of the past.

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HI, im Bram

As an illustrator based in the Netherlands, my work is mainly inspired by my Bangladeshi heritage and fascinations for islamic culture, foods, traveling and history