Joana Kawahara Joana Kawahara

A Conversation with OMGidrawedit

To enter an OMGidrawedit illustration is to step into a dense, playful ecosystem where folklore, humour, and memory collide. The Exeter-based artist draws without visual references, building worlds from words in his head rather than images in his mind — a process shaped by aphantasia, meditation, and a lifelong fascination with both nature and science fiction. In this conversation, he reflects on humour as a coping mechanism, the challenge of knowing when a piece is finished, and why his characters are both “extremely cute and very dumb.”

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