Where’s your head at? Is the mind really such a terrible thing to waste?

Kiko Capile never tires of portraits, to our delight and (welcome) state of disruption. Through inspiration stagnation, boredom, bursts of energy and lethargy, he puts nose to the grind to bring life to characters, textures, and moods that worm their way into his mind.

Headtrip is a walk through the series of Capile’s latest fixations. Macabre portraits toe the line between elegant and uncomfortable, feral and ethereal, awkward and uncompromising—like the random ways people feel (and project that feeling) when posing for headshots.

While Capile will not likely stop drawing his signature fixations into his work, there’s no denying that the well where his drive to create springs from also gets dry and droll.

But that’s the freedom that comes with traversing one’s thoughts. Seeing beyond what is with the mind’s eye. Forever stimulated with the hope of creating enough affective stimuli for someone else to escape through—or from—with a journey to the center of the mind’s recesses.

Nikki Ignacio