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HIROKI

The gallery

Drawings

A collection of thirteen drawings by Isak Hiroki Swartz.

Year
2023
Medium
Ink pen on paper
Format
A4 or smaller
  1. Two emaciated figures, seen from behind, wading through water. One leans on a staff. In the sky, a pencil sketch of a sun.
    Drawing 1 of 13
  2. A densely hatched, stooping figure with large spiral eyes and arms folded across its body. Grey-toned silhouettes of people stand behind it.
    Drawing 2 of 13
  3. A woman in a feathered hat and a man in a bowler hat sit in a wooden boat suspended from clouds, flying over a landscape.
    Drawing 3 of 13
  4. A man in a top hat and cloak kisses a long-haired woman on a rocky shore. Behind them, a lake and hills with spruce trees.
    Drawing 4 of 13
  5. A room with plank walls. A woman kneels with her hands to her head and her mouth open. A bearded man, wrapped in cloth and rope, stands at a table. A rope hangs from the ceiling above him.
    Drawing 5 of 13
  6. Drawing in colour: a bird-like flying machine with fringed wings, seen from below against a blue sky.
    Drawing 6 of 13
  7. A man in a top hat hangs in a large wing-shaped flying frame against a blue-toned sky. Two similar fliers are further away. Japanese characters in the lower right.
    Drawing 7 of 13
  8. A man in a top hat and a woman ride a fish-shaped flying machine with propellers beneath a balloon, high above the clouds.
    Drawing 8 of 13
  9. A running woman with jointed, mechanical limbs rushes past stone walls beneath a dark oval in the sky.
    Drawing 9 of 13
  10. A dense townscape of domed, patchwork houses, a cobbled street and people at café tables.
    Drawing 10 of 13
  11. A woman in a long skirt faces a huge, segmented, larva-like creature pierced by arrows, against a dark cross-hatched background.
    Drawing 11 of 13
  12. A man in glasses and a hat stands on the edge of a cliff with a pen and drawing board. A woman with large dark wings is close beside him, her face turned towards his.
    Drawing 12 of 13
  13. Portrait of a cat in a top hat, bow tie and buttoned jacket.
    Drawing 13 of 13