Worshippers of the Black Christ of Portobelo look at the statue during the annual celebratory pilgrimage in Portobelo, in the province of Colon October 21, 2015. Thousands of devotees gather at the Festival of the Black Christ every year to celebrate Christ's miracles. (Photo by Carlos Jasso/Reuters)

Istanbul-based Ali Gulec is a graphic artist with a difference. His surreal illustrations are like identikit drawings aiming to prosecute the material arts. Working on the margins of what is possible with his medium, Gulec's forms, figures, and situations are remarkable for their clarity and strength of purpose, and maintain an iconographic intensity that would make any rock band bereft of an album cover salivate with admiration.

Newlyweds take wedding photos hanging from bridge, Yueyang, Hunan province, China on August 9, 2016. They held such a special wedding ceremony on China's Qixi Festival. (Photo by Top Photo Corporation/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

If you are interested, the Korean call this style Trot (ppongjjak); a very simple life story is told with three guitar chords – quite a typical situation for our planet. Long-legged dolls from LPG (by the way, “Lovely Pretty Girls” could be “Long Pretty Girls”) are certainly smiling, though it would have been more logical for them to cry their hearts out, but that's what the Korean are like; who has seen doramas, will understand.

A customer touches an adult sеx toy doll at a stall during the Asia Adult Expo in Hong Kong on August 30, 2017. (Photo by Jayne Russell/The Sun)

A competitor poses on the catwalk during the Miss Bumbum Brazil 2017 pageant in Sao Paulo on November 07, 2017. Fifteen candidates are competing in the annual pageant to select the Brazil's sexiest female rear end. (Photo by Nelson Almeida/AFP Photo)

UK Love Island's Maura Higgins attends the Pretty Little Thing X Molly-Mae party at Rosso on September 01, 2019 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Splash News and Pictures)

A sheep and a gentleman farmer take to the streets of London today to mark the launch the new English Countryside chapter of Farmville, Zynga's global social gaming phenomenon on March 29, 2011 in London, England. Farmville English Countryside gives players all-new crops, buildings and decorations located in the beautiful English Countryside. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Farmville)