The Hōsōshi, Japan’s Four-Eyed Exorcist Demon

The Hōsōshi was a four-eyed exorcist demon from Japanese folklore, a court ritual figure whose extra eyes let him watch every direction at once and hunt pestilence out of the palace. This handmade clay effigy catches him after the turn, when the exorcist himself was sealed and remade as the kind of demon he once […]

Museum of Traditional Vietnamese Medicine – Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)

Apothecary jars of herbal remedies on wooden shelves in a traditional Vietnamese medicine museum

The Museum of Traditional Vietnamese Medicine (Bảo tàng Y học Cổ truyền Việt Nam) stands as the first private museum in Vietnam dedicated to the healing arts. Spanning 18 exhibition rooms across five floors, the space is a meticulously designed “living” environment that showcases over 3,000 artifacts dating from the Stone Age to the present. […]

The Mausoleum of Le Van Duyet – Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)

Stone guardian lion and topiary in the tiled courtyard of Lê Văn Duyệt's mausoleum

The Mausoleum of Lê Văn Duyệt serves as the final resting place of a high-ranking general and governor from the early Nguyễn Dynasty. Architecturally, the site is a preserved example of Southern Vietnamese funerary design, characterized by a balance of formal imperial aesthetics and vibrant folk ornamentation. The Mausoleum of Lê Văn Duyệt is located […]

Tam Son Hoi Quan Pagoda – Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)

Gilded Ksitigarbha statue holding a staff on a red ancestral tablet altar

The Tam Son Hoi Quan Pagoda is a premier example of 19th-century Fujian architectural influence in Southern Vietnam. While many pagodas in the region have undergone modern renovations, Tam Son retains a significant amount of its original structural character and ornamental detail. Tam Son Hoi Quan Pagoda is located in the heart of Chợ Lớn […]

Pháp viện Minh Đăng Quang – Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)

Multi-tiered Buddhist temple with ornate tiled roofs and white balustrades, Pháp viện Minh Đăng Quang

Established in 1968 and significantly expanded in recent years, Pháp viện Minh Đăng Quang is the spiritual headquarters of the Mendicant Buddhist Order (Hệ phái Khất sĩ), a homegrown Vietnamese Buddhist tradition. Architecturally, the complex represents a modern evolution of Buddhist design, favoring reinforced concrete structures combined with traditional iconography. Pháp viện Minh Đăng Quang […]

Ba Son Bridge – Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)

Ba Son cable-stayed bridge behind a lit pavilion and lotus pond at dusk, Ho Chi Minh City

The Ba Son Bridge is a defining feature of the modern Ho Chi Minh City skyline. As a cable-stayed bridge, its design serves both a functional and an aesthetic purpose. It facilitates the city’s eastward expansion and acts as a “gateway” monument that mirrors the silhouette of a sail or a musical instrument. The Thủ […]

Sci-Fi Japanese Architecture

Isometric ink sketch of a stacked cyberpunk building with rooftop ducts, antenna and vents

This series collects pen-and-ink drawings of sci-fi Japanese architecture, worked across the spreads of a Moleskine sketchbook. Each page takes a traditional form, a tiled temple roof or a street-level shopfront, and grows it into the body of a machine, so the buildings read as both dwelling and mech. Several pages are drawn in tight […]

Ink Temple Drawings, Traditional and Hybrid Shrines

An original isometric ink drawing of a traditional temple featuring a brick-textured pyramidal roof, hanging paper lanterns, and Chinese calligraphic signage.

These are ink temple drawings of traditional and hybrid shrines, worked across the spreads of a Moleskine sketchbook. The forms start from real architecture, tiled temple roofs, multi-tiered pagodas and ornate shrine facades, then grow mechanical bodies of panels, gears and vents underneath. Some pages set a single building against a swirling, patterned sky. Others […]

Concept Technology Sketches, Systems and Devices

Sketchbook concept drawings of a modular hydroponic system, showing a cylindrical tower and stacked units.

These are concept technology sketches from a Moleskine sketchbook, working design pages rather than finished illustration. They cover a closed-loop growing system that fuses a terrarium, an aquarium and a hydroponic bed, plus modular hardware fixings and a long run of electronic device and control-panel studies. Most pages carry handwritten labels and flow arrows, so […]