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The Stop-Motion Inspired, Slightly Spooky World of Anastasiya Kraynyuk

Somewhere between a surreal daydream and your childhood stop-motion VHS collection lives the fantastical world of Anastasiya Kraynyuk.

A Serbian digital sorceress of sorts, Kraynyuk crafts visual concoctions that feel like they were pinched and prodded into existence by mischievous clay elves.

A colorful tabletop arrangement featuring a pink fish on a green plate surrounded by decorative gears, a fork, a pink knife, and a purple cup next to a hand with red nails adorned with rings and bracelets.

Her artwork bubbles with strange familiarity—rubbery, globby characters that seem equal parts charming and unsettling.

Think Wallace and Gromit after an espresso-fueled semester at art school. Textures are so tangibly bizarre you’ll want to poke your screen to make sure it’s not squishy.

A colorful bowl with green and white stripes containing several pink shapes that resemble playful objects, placed on a decorative green plate against a solid green background.

Kraynyuk’s curious aesthetic has caught the eyes of The New York Times, Zeit Campus, and Vinyl Moon, who were presumably drawn in by her delightful weirdness.

And when the digital canvas isn’t enough, she 3D prints her strange little universes into the real world—bringing her gooey dreams to physical life.

A colorful, surreal scene featuring a person sitting in a green chair, wearing a decorative mask with large eyes. The background is filled with vibrant flowers and abstract shapes, with a lamp nearby and a small black creature on the arm of the chair.

Dive deeper into her technicolor rabbit hole via her website or lurk joyfully through her Instagram. It’s like claymation, but make it psychedelic.

Images © Copyright Anastasiya Kraynyuk.

A white sculpture of a head with two openings for eyes, inside which are small pink figures. The sculpture is displayed on a white pedestal against a dark background.
A close-up view of a 3D rendered human fetus in a colorful womb-like structure, with a stethoscope nearby against a vibrant red background.
A colorful room with a green wall features various whimsical desserts, including a pink cake and bowls of sweets. A surprised character peeks through a red door.
An artistic rendering of pink lips with an image of gears inside, juxtaposed with a green striped bowl filled with pink pasta and a fork, set against a bright green background.
A colorful ceramic figure with a bright pink face, braids, and abstract facial features. The figure has an open head revealing smaller faces inside and decorative elements like a sun and flower above.
A colorful artistic mask with red facial features, dark eyes, and white birds on either side, surrounded by various abstract shapes including building-like structures and coral formations.
A surreal digital art scene featuring a large, abstract face with exaggerated features and large, dark eyes, surrounded by multiple oversized clock faces. There are two stylized orange trees on either side, and rocky debris with hands pushing up from underneath.
A stylized figure with an exaggerated face and body, surrounded by geometric buildings and red trees, set against a green hilly background.
A surreal sculpture featuring a faceless figure holding a mask, with a road extending through its torso. The scene includes abstract red trees and geometric buildings set against a vibrant orange ground.
A person lies on a brown couch in a whimsical environment, surrounded by stylized green trees and white clouds, while holding a green object and gazing at it.
A dark door against a gray wall, surrounded by red coral-like structures and gray rocks on the floor.

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Ben VanderVeen is the founder and editor of Moss & Fog, one of the web’s longest-running visual culture destinations. Since 2009, he’s been finding and framing the most beautiful, surprising, and thought-provoking work in art, architecture, design, and nature — reaching over 325,000 readers each month. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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