Every once in a while (sometimes it’s a loooooong while) we go through all of the emails in our “pending” box and clean it out. In the process, lots of times we realize there’s something we were really into, but never posted about it and forgot about it as our in and pending mailboxes filled up.

Case in point: we met an artist named Peter-John de Villiers at a party a while back (don’t ask how long) and he sent us a link to his site. We checked it out and loved his work. He makes these really intense pen and ink drawings that we love called Life Lines that are insanely chaotic, but given his palette of only black and white, minimal at the same time.

Life Lines: The force of motivation behind this series stems from a specific experience I had as a child. In a flash moment, that seemed to last a lifetime, an intense feeling consumed me. I was overcome with a feeling, as if all the information that makes up the universe was being presented to me at once. The interconnectivity of every living thing was crystal clear, information was infinite. I felt the weight of everything in its entirety reduced to the size of a pin point. It was beyond explanation, I was a changed person.

Read more about Life Lines and see more images from the series on his Tumblr. He’s also an amazing illustrator, designer, and photographer. You can see a wide range of his work on his site.