[Le emozioni represse](https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/this-is-you-when-youre-alone-missing-somebody) sembrano esplodere nei corpi dei ritratti dismorfici che l'illustratore svedese e iprofessore alla [Swedish Academy of Realist Art](http://www.swedishacademyofrealistart.se/) Miles Johnston disegna e posta sul suo account Instagram.  
Ispirandosi a maestri come Gustav Klimt e illustratori contemporanei come [James Jean](https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/graffitification-street-art-festival-honolulu), Johnston passa tra le 10 e le 30 ore a disegnare meticolosamente, costruire e rifinire concetti che vive durante la sua vita.  
I disegni a matita monocromi sembrano rappresentare l'impatto fisico che i sentimenti più nascosti hanno sul corpo. Facce capovolte, corpi sezionati che rivelano viscere labirintiche e arti che eruttano fumo specchio di terribili mal di testa, nodi allo stomaco e crisi esistenziali.

Trying out "fawn" Stonehenge paper, love the colour, darker value than usual.

Miles Johnston’s Instagram profile post: “Trying out 

Since I've spent the weekend in bed recovering, I spent some time going back over old scans that I think were done poorly and readjusting the values a bit. I used to have a bad habit of pushing the contrast too much and generally being a bit lazy with it. Had a ton of fun working on this one, trying to visualize​ how light would strike an inverted face, I find it fun trying to imagine putting my own face into hers and taking a little look through the eye holes.

Miles Johnston on Instagram: “Since I've spent the weekend in bed recovering, I spent some time going back over old scans that I think were done poorly and readjusting…”

So! its finished. always a bittersweet feeling, a mixture of satisfaction, disappointment, anticipation and excitement . I love drawing more than I love to do anything else. If you want to see the original someday it will be hanging at @beinartgallery this July in Melbourne. Lots of love. Size is 15x15cm

Miles Johnston on Instagram: “So! its finished. always a bittersweet feeling, a mixture of satisfaction, disappointment, anticipation and excitement . I love drawing…”

Miles Johnston on Instagram: “A dumb sketchbook page of some spagoop”

I scanned this thing! Pretty happy with how it turned out, graphite on Stonehenge paper.

Aaaalso! I'm doing a little podcast with the mighty @evenmehlamundsen in about 5-10 mins here! http://youtu.be/Ed1xRPjSw2I Come hang out if you feel like it. :D link in bio

Miles Johnston on Instagram: “I scanned this thing! Pretty happy with how it turned out, graphite on Stonehenge paper.  Aaaalso! I'm doing a little podcast with the…”

Dazzled

I like to keep up a steady diet of podcasts, lectures and audiobooks while I'm working on drawings to help keep a flow of new information coming in. Over the past couple years I have listened to some really great Buddhist speakers talk about the concept of impermanence and the kinds of suffering it can cause.  I think this seems fairly obvious to most people when we think about the bigger things, the loss of relationships, the death of ourselves and everyone we will ever know, the collapse of entire civilisations, or maybe even the inevitable demise of our planet as it gets swallowed up by our Sun turning into a red giant. It wasn't actually any of those things that my mind went to first, instead it was with older mundane memories of totally absurd dissatisfaction around normal day to day moments that it resonated most strongly. It actually feels almost embarrassing or self indulgent to write this example down, but in the spirit of honesty I will anyway.
It used to be a really exciting occasion when my dad would order a pizza delivery instead of us eating home cooking. I remember one moment, where right as I was totally immersed in that momentum of desire and hunger before you begin eating a delicious meal, this strange realisation and sadness came over me. No matter how delicious, no matter how long it took, no matter how intense the pleasure of eating, soon enough it would inevitably be over. Once it had come to pass, it didn't seem to matter how good the food had been, in some sense the hunger had all been a lie, it was still now, I was still me and the satisfaction it had promised could never last. It felt like the pizza was already gone before I even began eating it. The pull into the future of the hunger would be replaced by tiredness, thirst, boredom or pain. 
It bothered me because I couldn't shake the feeling that somehow my whole life would pass in exactly the same manner. No matter what I did, what peaks of ecstacy I reached or which depths of suffering I was unfortunate enough to endure, I had this horrible feeling that it ultimately didn't matter.(No matter how long and full the life I lived) You can extrapolate to the extreme, just for..

Miles Johnston on Instagram: “Dazzled  I like to keep up a steady diet of podcasts, lectures and audiobooks while I'm working on drawings to help keep a flow of new…”

Cropped scan of a moleskine page from the summer. Graphite is the best

Miles Johnston’s Instagram profile post: “Cropped scan of a moleskine page from the summer. Graphite is the best”

Miles Johnston ha esposto alla Last Rites Gallery a Maggio ed esporrà alla beinArt Gallery a Luglio.  
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