What inspires me? Fills me with passion or euphoria? Maybe these will inspire you too.
Or they might just reveal how much of a freaking nerd I am...Can you spot evidence of these in my artwork? Most of them show up sooner or later ;)
PEOPLE
Tristan Tzara
Bisan Owda
Gordon Ramsay
MUSIC
Twenty One Pilots (full discography)
Earth by Sleeping at Last
Mars by Sleeping at Last
No Phun Intended album by Tyler Joseph
When We Cry by Uzzah
Ghost Towns by Radical Face
Welcome Home, Son by Radical Face
Old Gemini by Radical Face
You're Gonna Go Far by Noah Kahan
Stick Season by Noah Kahan
Shake, Shake, Shake by Bronze Radio Return
Joyride by Adam Melchor
Let You Down by NF
Dystopia by Starset
Make Them Hear You by Nine
Us and Pigs by Sofia Isella
Patience by Nas & Damian Marley
What Are We Fighting For by The Federal Empire
Zombie by Bad Wolves
Palestine Will Rise by Abe Batshon, Samer & Sammy Shiblaq
The Village by Wrabel
Holy Water by Noah Davis
The Brig by Marcus Warner
Love Letters to God by Nahko and Medicine for the People
The Optimist by Adam French
i am not who i was by Chance Peña
How to Be Me by Ren & CHINCHILLA
Outnumbered by Dermot Kennedy
Exaltation by James Swearingen
Against the Tide by Sail North
FILMS AND SHOWS
The Visitors by Ragnar Kjartansson
A Wrinkle In Time (2003)
To The Bone
On/Off by Nicholas P. Villareal
The Mandela Effect
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Martian
Divergent
The Incredibles
Arcane
The Sparticle Mystery
Marvel Runaways
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Monk
Sherlock (With Benedict Cumberbatch)
Astroboy
BOOKS AND WRITINGS
The Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch
The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
The CandyMakers by Wendy Mass
Dada Manifesto 1918 by Tristan Tzara
My Heart is on the Ground by Ann Rinaldi
CHARACTERS
Spiderman
Astroboy
ART
Fille née sans mère by Francis Picabia
WHAT IF WE COULD REIMAGINE A SQUARE? by Sherwin Rio
Moonlit Market by Johann Mengels Culverhouse
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí
Bad Fruit by Kathleen Ryan
I Can't Help Myself by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu
Fountain by Marcel Duchamp
La Poupée Series by Hans Bellmer
Guernica by Picasso
Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck
MUSEUMS AND HISTORICAL SITES
Blackhawk Museum (Danville, California)
Atlanta High Museum of Art (Atlanta, Georgia)
SF MoMA (San Francisco, California)
Tellus Museum (Cartersville, Georgia)
Moon Museum (This is literally on the Earth's Moon)
Waterfall House (Mill Run, Pennsylvania)
Museum of the Future (Dubai, UAE)
Stonehenge (Salisbury, UK)
PLACES
Waitomo Glowworm Caves (New Zealand)
Transgender District (San Francisco)
Saint Mary's Square (Chinatown, San Francisco)
Pompeii (Italy)
Smeerenburg (Svalbard, Norway)
Six Flags New Orleans (New Orleans, Louisiana)
THEORIES
Theory of the Collective Unconscious by Carl Jung
Spaghettification by Stephen Hawking
Mandela Effect by Fiona Broome
SYMBOLS
Labyrinths
Ankh
Yin Yang
The number 3
OTHER
Subtractive Architecture
Alleyman's Tarot
Oracle Bones
Trumpets
Hex color #125E4B
Abandoned Theme Parks