All videos courtesy the artistA pink humanoid creature with every bodily appendage replaced with a pair of legs struts endlessly down a treadmill in the sky, as an airplane swerves and crashes into the mountains below. A snake-like creature made-up of a hundred identical blue heads crawls out of a lipstick container until it stares eerily out at the viewer with empty eyes and an emptier soul, while British electropop sensation Charli XCX blares in the background. Although these descriptions may sound like trippy sci-fi dreams (or nightmares), they're actually the works of Robert Ek, a gifted young artist and designer based in Sweden.A video posted by Robert Ek (@kreationsministern) on Apr 17, 2016 at 12:19am PDT
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Working primarily in short, visually stunning 3D animations often set to bass-thumping music, Ek’s work feels like a series of excerpts from a futuristic alternate dimension. Every piece assaults and overloads your senses, yet leaves you with a hypnotic desire to delve further into his feed in an effort to understand the inexplicable things you’ve just witnessed.A video posted by Robert Ek (@kreationsministern) on Apr 10, 2016 at 1:07pm PDT
Despite the digital density of his works, his sources of inspiration are somewhat quotidian and less outlandish than you might expect: “I get a lot of my inspiration from music, which gives me interesting mental pictures that need to be visualized,” the Ek tells The Creators Project. “I also get inspiration from old, far-out religious paintings like Hieronymus Bosch, whose super-weird scenarios and events really satisfy me.”A video posted by Robert Ek (@kreationsministern) on Mar 9, 2016 at 10:57am PST
A video posted by Robert Ek (@kreationsministern) on Feb 8, 2016 at 9:51am PST
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To view Ek’s oeuvre in its entirety, visit his website or Instagram feed, updated weekly with new works.Trip out to more artists on The Creators Project's Instagram.Related:A Slice-of-Life Stop-Motion Set During an Argentine DictatorshipStereoscopic GIFs Get Trippy Makeovers with Neural Network ImagingAdventure Time-Worthy Psychedelics | Monday Insta IllustratorA video posted by Robert Ek (@kreationsministern) on Feb 16, 2016 at 9:24am PST