SHOWCASE
/ ARTIST / 2025
| ARTIST: | Studio Micki |
| COUNTRY: | Philippines |
| EMAIL: | michaelbaes.business@gmail.com |
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https://www.artstation.com/michaelbaes https://www.facebook.com/john.m.baes/ https://www.instagram.com/studio.micki?igsh=MXdlYXhrZGsxM3RzMQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr |
| Hi! I’m Micki, the playful mind behind Studio Micki, an art world where bold colors, layered textures, and quirky characters collide. My work celebrates chaotic joy, nostalgic surrealism, and everyday emotions, told through dreamy palettes and expressive forms. Inspired by sticker books, zines, street scenes, and absurd humor, I use digital techniques to tell stories that are whimsical yet grounded. Everything I create is rooted in emotional honesty, cultural play, and a sprinkle of weirdness. I aim to build a universe that feels both personal and inviting, where every detail tells a story. Let’s keep things bright, enchanted, and just a little bit strange |
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Patok
Patok represents the iconic Philippine ride, the jeepney. It portrays the everyday experience of the Filipino commuter, using colorful, bold lines to reflect the spirit of Filipino festivity.
Rest
This artwork serves as a reminder to every artist that rest is an essential part of the creative process. Taking time to pause, reflect, and recharge is just as important as creating itself.
If only
This artwork represents the artist's personal journey, capturing the multitude of thoughts and feelings, including art blocks and imposter syndrome. During this time, the artist was inspired by the song "If Only" by Abandoned Pools, incorporating the translated Japanese lyrics: "If only the sun and the moon would explode, everything would then be all right." This process of self-actualization, exploring music, and creating art is what the artist truly cherishes.
Mahiwaga
This artwork aims to create a tarot card infused with Studio Micki’s distinctive style. It evokes a sense of the majestic, trippy, and hypnotizing elements.
Astral Projection
This piece radiates an electric sense of cosmic wonder, as if the viewer is being pulled into a vivid dream state or an alternate plane of existence. At its core, the artwork explores the theme of astral projection, which is the idea of the soul or consciousness detaching from the physical body and journeying through unseen dimensions.
Please be the Light
A kaleidoscope of emotion and imagination, this artwork bursts with surreal energy and heartfelt symbolism. At its center is a wide-eyed figure, seemingly suspended in a moment of intense inner awakening. Their spiraling eyes and expression, both dazed and determined, suggest a powerful search for meaning, hope, or clarity. Floating stars drift across their face like glowing fragments of thought, memory, or healing.The Japanese text above, "光になってください" (Please be the light), acts as both a plea and a mantra. It is an emotional cry for guidance, warmth, and transformation, echoing the universal desire to find or become a source of light in times of confusion or darkness.
Surrounding the central figure is a whimsical world filled with playful strangeness. A frog in a party hat gazes curiously, while electric blue mushrooms bloom around the figure’s chest like emotional growths or shields. The bold, layered colors and dreamy distortion create a psychedelic, almost otherworldly atmosphere that suggests the piece exists somewhere between dream and reality, joy and vulnerability.
Intuition
This artwork is a visual meditation on intuition, the quiet inner voice that guides us beyond logic and into deeper knowing. With its symmetrical composition and fluid, organic forms, the piece evokes a sense of balance, mystery, and cosmic rhythm. At the center, a figure reaches upward toward a crescent moon, suggesting a moment of connection between the self and the unseen.The textured strokes and shimmering colors create an otherworldly feeling, as though the image is vibrating on a higher frequency. Stars, plants, and surreal creatures float within the frame like fragments of dreams or symbols from a subconscious landscape.
This piece invites the viewer to trust their gut, follow their internal compass, and recognize that not all truths are spoken. Sometimes, the answers come quietly, from a place beyond words.
Katutubo para kay Kristo
This illustration was created for an art workshop I conducted in Oriental Mindoro, where I taught ethnic Mangyan children how to paint using locally available materials from the mountains. The cultural patterns in the artwork highlight the richness of Mangyan heritage and serve as a reminder to preserve it, even as we move through modern times.