Paradise Drawing by Oscar Oiwa

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Japanese artist Oscar Oiwa recently completed a 360-degree black-and-white drawing inside an inflatable vinyl balloon in São Paulo.

The work, titled Oscar Oiwa in Paradise – Drawing the Ephemeral, looks like a dark vortex, made up of twisting paths, dark forests and an ominously swirling sky.

It was created over the course of two weeks, together with five assistants. Between the six of them, they used 120 black marker pens to create this immense installation.

“I’ve always enjoyed drawing, which I consider the most basic way of expressing myself visually,” says Oscar on the Japan House website, the exhibition space where the artwork is on show until 3 June 2018. “A pencil and a blank sheet, there is no simpler media than that.”

Watch the clip below to see how this mesmerising piece came to be.

(h/t) thisiscolossal.com