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/ ARTIST / 2026

ARTIST: noirphetamine
COUNTRY: Thailand
CONTACT: instagram.com/noirphetamine
I'm Nicha, and my artist alias is noirphetamine. I am a digital illustrator and fashion illustration instructor at a fashion design school in Bangkok. My work is mainly inspired by the gothic scene, Gothic Lolita subculture and Visual-kei or Japanese glam rock fashion. I want to create my own world of modern Dark Romanticism characters, combining fashion subcultures that I love growing up with manga illustrations.

burn the witch

inspired by the 1930 painting 'American Gothic' by Grant Wood, this is my view on reflecting the meaning behind the painting itself, which is the portray of strict traditional beliefs and defensing the social norms from what they judged different. i used my twin characters in modern gothic lolita fashion, a subculture i am a part of since i was a teenager. back then, people even my own family, kept telling me that this is 'not right' and i should conform to wearing or being normal. now that i have grown pass my teenage years, and i have found my community, also seeing people being more accepting of fashion styles and identities and expressing themselves, i'm quite thankful that my teenage self stood up for what she loves and not giving up on the adult she wanted to become.

teeth

to all the girls who don't walk the woods with baskets of sugar and warm milk, but those with claws and fangs and thunderstorms for hearts; (please let girls be weird and scary..)

doll parts

do not take yourself apart and reassemble it to anyone's liking. you will end up with missing hearts and extra hands. do not break your joints to entertain even it sounds like wind chimes, you will need both legs to run from them.. (say, my body was never your instrument..)

dead mannequin's love potions

my twin character was born because i like idea of duality in every character, just like us, having both sides of personality or feelings in ourselves, love and hatred, gentle and rage, and the conflict makes us human. (ingredients : tears.)

repent

you cannot look at the sun without blinding your eyes, you cannot touch fire without burning your hands, you cannot tend to roses without bleeding on their thorns..
(and that was him, pure, lucid and evil..)

knife

i am both the sacrificial lamb and the executioner. the one screaming and the angel of death. (from bilal al shams's 'sacrifice')

sin

tell your deepest, darkest secrets. let them feed on flesh and poetry, but even when you offer your heart at their feet and wash them with your hair, if their devils don't match yours, they will never be your salvation; (confess. repeat. confess.)

20th century cupids

bows and arrows are outdated, dealing with something as chaotic as love is a hard work..

lovestruck

lace and embroidery on canvas print : to fall in love is to kill yourself a little. the poison soon sets in, slows the heart;

mourn

how do we mourn a living man? : a cover of my mini poem book 'cemetery cemetery : love poems full of death' the topic circling around hurting and forgetting the hurt, with symbolisms of victorian mourning.