High Strangeness

High Strangeness began with a simple fascination: the feeling that the world might still hold mysteries we haven’t fully explained yet.

For as long as we can remember, stories about cryptids and unexplained encounters have captured our imagination. Bigfoot moving quietly through the forests of the Pacific Northwest. The long neck of the Loch Ness Monster breaking the surface of a dark Scottish loch. Strange lights seen by pilots and travelers who were certain they knew what they saw.

Whether these stories are folklore, misidentification, or something stranger, they have a way of staying with you.

High Strangeness grew out of that curiosity.

The project started with a love of vintage newspaper headlines and archival illustrations — the kind of documents that feel like they belong in a drawer somewhere in a forgotten museum office. Reports, sketches, diagrams, and notes that hint at encounters just outside the boundaries of accepted knowledge.

From there, the idea expanded into a collection of artwork that treats these stories the way a natural history archive might treat an unusual specimen: carefully observed, thoughtfully documented, and presented as part of a larger record.

Many of the pieces begin with the most famous figures in the world of unexplained phenomena. Bigfoot, whose enormous footprints and quiet forest sightings have been reported for generations. The Loch Ness Monster, whose iconic silhouette in the water continues to inspire debate nearly a century after the famous photograph first appeared.

These figures sit at the center of High Strangeness because they represent something powerful: the possibility that the natural world still contains things we don’t fully understand.

Each design is created as if it were part of a growing archive — field notes, specimen illustrations, diagrams, and fragments of evidence collected over time. Some are inspired by historic sightings and newspaper reports, while others imagine how a museum or research bureau might catalog these creatures if they were treated like any other rare species.

At its heart, High Strangeness isn’t about proving whether cryptids are real.

It’s about preserving the wonder around them.

Because the world feels a little more interesting when there’s still room for a mystery.