L.A.-based illustrator Hannah Stouffer finds a great deal of comfort in imagery – it’s an admiration that is oftentimes overwhelming. With an infatuation for icons and images that reflect and categorize historical eras, genres, and subcultures, her work is an opulent, elegant, and beautifully intricate contrast between darkness and light. Her densely-packed compositions consciously recall classical elements from our past and combine them with modern attractions, creating cohesive yet opposing arrays of imagery and embellishment. She focuses on contrasts between love, lust, and gore-decadence, wrath and fate – merging them together with a high regard for decoration.
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