Street Art from Another Dimension (well, actually from Daan Botlek)

Daan Botlek is a Rotterdam, Netherlands-based street artist and illustrator known for his minimalist characters and their etherial grasp on the tangible world. In places as distant as Leipzig, Germany and Bangkok, Thailand, Botlek has been inserting his often stark white characters into old building facades, giving their locations a surreal new ambiance as the characters bizarrely interact with the space.

His figures, which clearly pay tribute to those of the late Keith Haring, are both ghostly white, and ghostly in their otherworldly interaction with the surrounding space. In many instances the figures pass between dimensions, or through apparently solid mater – walking through walls, reaching through imaginary boxes. Botlek cleverly illustrates this by changing the outline color of each figure as they interact with the object, almost the way objects change hue when viewed underwater.
Botlek’s minimalist style is one that perfectly lends itself to print use (like T-shirts) and street art. You can find more of his work on Facebook, Behance, or Flickr.
Daan Botlek Street Art 2