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Young girls in dark dresses with black hair around their doll-like faces - these are the main characters of Italian illustrator who creates surreal drawings with a touch of horror.

Virginia Mori, 36, lives and works in Pesaro and Milan, Italy. Her favorite media are pencil, ink, and ballpoint pen on paper. The artist gain following because of her unique, dark and surreal style and imagery. "I can’t say how I arrived at this style," Virginia told to stylenochaser. "It has been a long and slow journey filled with a lot of research, but everything came very naturally, in a very instinctive way. I just followed what I like to do."

Artist's illustrations often have a melancholic or the nightmarish feel to them. "I am not trying to explain anything with certainty with my art. I just want to suggest strange feelings and situations in a metaphoric way."

Below you can find some of her works. Which one is your fave?

More info: Instagram | virginiamori.com (h/t Style.No.Chaser)

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh yeah, and never use razor wire as a skipping rope.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Extreme sleep paralysis is what this makes me think of. I get it sometimes and it's really a weird feeling.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder if it means anything that all the other legs have long pants and different shoes than hers/the front legs..? If they're not all "her legs" in a sense, it feels uncomfortably vulnerable, feeling like you can't get away, no privacy, aren't allowed to control the direction of your own body. That's what I get from it anyway.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is this condemning education that is too rigid, book-centric, and not enough creativity?

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dreams. Sometimes they are positive and floating. Sometimes they are negative that you want to hide from under the bed.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My immediate feeling is that father is with a new family, and she's the daughter from divorced family wanting father's attention. My second feeling is this is on the street; the man is a potential predator and girl's face in the window is someone seeing danger.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This makes me think of all the different "selves" we project for different people, in an attempt to hide and protect the real inner self.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nature looks ominous and dangerous to some people (the trees are dark and like spikes), but to others you can find your space there and it's a place of peace and rest.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"And this, kids, is why we don't throw paper airplanes. Any questions?"

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you do not like Ariana Grande... She will find you... And she will kill you.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a sweet one :) Sleep sets your mind free, letting it wander away to magical worlds.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Me about to read Harry Potter: the order of the phionex during a math lesson

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So creative! I love the concept. Her illustrations of water though somewhat annoy me on account of their synthetic appearance, but it's still cool.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can bearly keep my head above water. Another inch and I drown...

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am behind French doors but can't get them to close. The lions will eat me...

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Might want to reduce the dosage of those pain meds you were prescribed...

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When you introduce a couple of your friends to each other, and they get along with each other better than they do with you.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She should've used the ladder. Her head was like yes but her body was like nope.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is the consequences of falling asleep while reading a horror book

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Symbol : dropping a flag during football halftime, stopping on the correct line and everyone else chooses the other to step on leaving you standing alone. Forgetting your lines in a play and you just freeze up. I only experienced one. I have noticed others out of step and just freeze. I just hope this has happened to EVERYONE at least once so they can feel the horror that goes on in you.

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"Oh very funny Charley, just you wait till I get you back in the stable , you are such a jerk on my day aren't you Charley...

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Blood actually tastes quite good. It is rich, salty and slightly thick, but not too thick to make it weird.

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Okay... Tap four: Bristling Hydra. I get three Energy Counters... And I guess I'll end.

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Me Spending some quality time with the dead children in my closet lmao

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Time is ticking, and will always do so. Your heart is beating, but only temporarily.

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"Hey guys! Wanna play Harry Potter? AVADAKADAVRA! Oh... I never really liked them anyway...

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I should have known better than try to read it from beginning to end.

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"I'm going to wash that man out of my hair and send him on his way..." (From South Pacific.

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SHOT THROUGH THE HEART, AND YOU'RE TO BLAME YOU GAVE LOOOOOVE, A BAD NAME

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This is so like Shintaro Kago, it is clearly the artist is heavily influenced by Guro Japanese mangakas

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