Portfolio — Andrew Gurgish

Movie

Binge Dream

The popular science detective story about the most underrated resource of our life. Here, for the first time, the science of sleep reveals its secrets and riddles, showing the topic from both the body and the mind.

2022 View Work

Illustration

Choirs of the Abyss

A solitary figure stands before luminous rings rising from a dark, impossible sea. The image explores the fragile scale of the human presence against forces that feel ancient, cosmic, and unknowable - a quiet moment before revelation, transformation, or disappearance.

2017 View Work

Illustration

Crown of the Deep

A dark, bird-like silhouette rises beneath a vast, feathered current of light. The image suggests a creature at the threshold of transformation - half-shadow, half-relic - crowned by a pale halo as if the abyss itself had mistaken it for a saint.

2018 View Work

Movie

Red Velvet

A recovering ambiguously addicted couple, Eric and Rebecca, struggle to adapt and live a normal married life. A mundane dinner party with neighbors causes their dark past to reveal itself.

2015 View Work

Illustration

Upside Down

There was a mountain that fell into the sky. On its summit stood a man, watching another figure suspended in a circle of light. He could not tell whether it was falling, ascending, or being born. Between them stretched a silence so deep that gravity forgot its law. Some called it a fall. Others called it revelation. But perhaps it was only the moment when a man understood that heaven and abyss are the same door.

2019 View Work

Illustration

Fragment of a Nonexistent Triptych

They found only the middle panel. The first had never been painted. The third had been erased before anyone could see it. What remained was a body, a curtain, a wound of gold, and several thin vertical lines that looked like rain, prison bars, or the strings of an instrument no hand could play.

2018 View Work

Illustration

So Let the River Run

Some said the river carried the dead. Others said it carried those who had not yet been born. But the oldest story was simpler: the river did not lead anywhere. It only moved so that men could believe time was passing.

2018 View Work

Identity

Gurgish Mark

They said the letter G was not drawn, but discovered in an old astronomical map. A golden initial, half monogram and half celestial instrument, it seemed to measure not distance, but imagination. Above it burned a small sun - perhaps a guide, perhaps a warning. No archive explained its origin. Only one note remained: “The sign belongs to the one who makes worlds visible before they exist.”

2026 View Work

Illustration

Before the First Horizon

This work explores the birth of the universe as a threshold rather than an event. Form, colour, and movement emerge in a state where matter and space are still indistinguishable. The human figure appears not as an individual, but as a transient structure - a vessel through which the universe briefly recognises itself before stabilising into laws, time, and distance.

2024 View Work

Illustration

The Archive of Passages

There exists an archive that preserves neither names nor dates. It records only passages. Each time a being crosses a boundary - between worlds, states, or forms of existence - a witness appears. The witness does not judge and does not intervene; its sole function is to confirm that the passage has taken place. It is said that worlds continue to exist only because this archive remains unfinished.

2025 View Work