⁂ Meet the Artist

  • Names: Alex, Lutz
  • Hatchday: 8/23/1993
  • Brain stuff: Biromantic Aegosexual/ Autistic
  • Gender: Butch/masc Androgyne
  • Beliefs: Liberal Atheist
  • Exists in: Illinois, USA. Sometimes in orbit.
  • Likes: Being silly, birds, glow in the dark objects, hiking, morbid and gross things, neon colors against black, outer space, poop jokes, taking care of my friends, and the night
  • Dislikes: Anti-intellectualism, censorship, chewing noises, right wing politics, screaming children, strong smells, and whinging

How did I get here?

I was born in 1993. I wasted too much time resting in the womb when I could have bought a house for $2.17.

I grew up in a Rust Belt town that’s infamous for smelling like burnt Cheez-Its. I spent my childhood searching for an escape and I found it in the world of stories and art. It has always been my refuge from pain, an uncharted universe for me to explore, a wellspring of strangeness, and a tool to examine uncomfortable realities.

Favourite Things

  • Animals: Big Headed Mole Rats, Bully breed dogs, Frogfish, Japanese Emperor Caterpillars, Jumping Spiders, Koi Fish, Northern Cardinala, Opabinias, Red Milkweed Beetles, Red Winged Blackbirds, Tufted Titmice, Weevils, White breasted nuthatches.
  • Birds: American goldfinch, Barred owl, Downy woodpecker, Eastern towhee, Golden crowned kinglet, Gray catbird, House wren, Indigo bunting, Mourning dove, Northern cardinal, Northern flicker, Red bellied woodpecker, Red headed woodpecker, Red winged blackbird, Rose breasted grosbeak, Tufted titmouse, White breasted nuthatch, Willow ptarmigan, Yellow warbler
  • Flavors: Banana nut, BBQ, Caramel, Cherry, Cinnamon, Cola, Cotton candy, Green apple, Honey butter, Key lime, Lemon, Nacho cheese, Peach, Peppermint, Pumpkin, Root beer, Soy sauce, Taco, Vanilla
  • Food: Beef Bibimbap, Beef Lo Mein, Beef Pho, Chicken Tikka Masala, Coke Zero, Cheeseburgers, Chicago-style pizza, Chicken and Dumplings, Chicken Noodle Soup, Delmonico Steak, Fried Chicken, Grilled cheese sandwiches with Tomato Soup, Ice water, Jjajangmyeon, Lemon cake, Mint chocolate ice-cream, Mocktail Pina Coladas, Naan, Pasta in Alfredo sauce, Peppermint ice-cream, Pepperoni Pizza, Saag Paneer, Sesame Chicken with broccoli, Southern Barbecue, Thai Curry, Unsweetened ice tea, White Radish Kimchi.
  • Interests: 420, Astronomy, birds, criminology, cults, extreme cinema, film, general oddities, history, horror, liminal spaces, natural disasters, psychological and body horror, psychology, psychedelia, surrealism, tattoos, the human body, so-bad-it’s good media, vintage ephemera.
  • Little Things: Being in my bed under some cool lights, Being with my husband, Coffee table art-books, Cuddling my dog, Curating photos of silly things, Getting high and watching movies, Learning new bird songs, Listening to the frogs at the pond, Listening to some 80s' death metal, My friends, Reading my books, Smoking a joint under a full moon, Smoking a joint while I watch the rain, Stargazing, Staring at my lava lamps, The glow-in-the-dark stars on my ceiling, Those stressballs full of gel, This giant tangle I own, Tomato soup and grilled cheeses
  • Movies: 120 Days of Sodom, A Clockwork Orange, Cats Don’t Dance, Coraline, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Human Centipede 2, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Meet the Feebles, Misery, Robocop (1987), Soylent Green, Suspiria (1977), Tetsuo the Iron Man, The Brave Little Toaster, The Fly (1986), The Greasy Strangler, The Haunting (1963), The Iron Giant, The Killing of America, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), The Triplets of Belleville, Threads, Videodrome, Yellow Submarine.
  • >Music Genres: Berlin school, chiptunes, disco, electro/80s synth, early electronic, jazz fusion, lounge music, old school EDM, progressive/technical metal, prog rock, psychedelic/space rock, psytrance, surf rock, 80s thrash metal.
  • Musicians: Aorta, Artillery, Blotted Science, Bruce Haack, CA Quintet, Casiopea, Coroner, Death, Dead or Alive, Destruction, Egg, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Frenzy, Gong, Hawkwind, Jean-Jacques Perrey, King Diamond, Mort Garson, Ozric Tentacles, Over Kill, Pink Floyd, Russ Garcia Orchestra, Spiral Architect, Software, Tangerine Dream, Transit Express, Van der Graaf Generator, Vaperror, Voivod, Watchtower, Yes, Zenit.
  • Smells: Cedar wood, Cheap laundry detergent, Cinnamon, Coffee, even if I don’t drink it, Creeks, Deep dish pizza, Fresh office supplies, Leather, Mom and Pop candy stores, My dog, Pastries, Patchouli, Petrichor, Pine and Pumpkin candles, Skunky weed, The greasiest burger you can think of, The forest floor, The first cold night with a furnace, Vanilla
  • Textures: Anything with bumps, Chrysanthemum blooms, Crinkled paper, Cotton linen, Fleece, Glass, Marble, Mechanical keyboards, Moss, My dog’s ears, Polished wood, Raw beef, Running water, Silicon, Smooth stones, Stress toy foam, Wax, Weighted blankets, Wooden bridges
  • Video Games Anatomy, Crash Bandicoot Warped, Earthbound, Growing My Grandpa, Pajama Sam in No Need to Hide when it’s Dark Outside, Rayman 3, Spyro the Dragon, Super Castlevania IV, Super Metroid, Yobi’s Basic Spelling Tricks, Yume Nikki.
  • Visual Artists: Bill Watterson, Edward Gorey, Fleischer brothers, Ghastly Graham Ingles, Joan Miro, Jhonen Vasquez, Junji Ito, Michel “Away” Langevin, Peter Max, Phillipe Druillet, Reid Miles, Roger Dean, Rory Hayes, Stan Sakai, Stephen Gammell, Victor Moscoso, Wassily Kandinsky.

Frequently Asked Questions

What program do you use?

I draw exclusively with Procreate on a 13 inch iPad Pro. I like to call myself an iPad baby. I used to be a fully traditional artist and worked with mixed media. My most recent traditional media was done with India ink and markers, but I have also worked with oil paints on canvas, charcoal, acrylics, watercolor, and ink wash. I did not pick up on digital art until I was 26 because drawing with a standard tablet felt unnatural. Drawing on the iPad feels almost exactly like drawing on paper, and Procreate is capable of reproducing the textures of traditional tools. I liked it so much I stopped drawing with physical media altogether because Procreate gave me everything I wanted.

What is your favorite subject matter?

I enjoy creating dark, surreal stories about nerdy, strange people wandering into bizarre situations. Nearly everything I’ve written involves a socially awkward, nerdy, but mundane character falling down a rabbit hole of insanity where the laws of reality can break. I like to send an Everyman into a waking nightmare so that the reader can connect with the feeling of disorientation and horror. Anything can happen in the realm of thought. Dreams leak into the waking world. The mind becomes a physical place that can be explored, exposed one’s darkest secrets. I also like to find humor in the weird little mundane parts of life. Crooked pictures, sarcastic advertisements, smiley faces on dangerous objects, comically-timed accidents, and awkward social interactions can all be found here. I also focus on the beauty of quiet moments, often lingering on environment shots, unspoken interactions, and small details to immerse the reader in the story.