The Infinite Canvas of Rei

The collection

The Infinite Canvas of Rei is a multidisciplinary art project by Brooklyn visual artist ISH L-V-L (Lashan Mitchell). It began in 2024 as a series of original digital illustrations, created between 2024 and 2025, and has grown to include fashion, a street-level sticker campaign across three cities, an immersive digital exhibition and collectible editions.

At its center is Rei Takamura, a fictional muse imagined within Neo-Kyoto, a world where tradition meets futurism, rebellion and artistic freedom. Rei is never a fixed character. Across seven original works, each piece reveals a different side of her through expressive portraiture, abstraction, fragmented compositions and layered textures. The collection draws on Japanese visual culture, glitch aesthetics and the raw energy of graffiti, and it leaves Rei open to interpretation.

The artist — ISH L-V-L

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Lashan Mitchell, known professionally as ISH L-V-L, is a multidisciplinary visual artist and the founder and creative director of ISHLVLSTUDIOS.

Graffiti was the first medium she taught herself. It still shapes her work, less as a look than as a way of working: movement, layering, bold composition, and the freedom to make art outside conventional boundaries, in public, where anyone might find it.

ISH works across digital illustration, photography, moving image and creative direction. She created the illustrations for The Infinite Canvas of Rei digitally in Procreate, drawing on street art, Japanese aesthetics, abstract portraiture and contemporary digital culture. Through ISHLVLSTUDIOS, she explores how an original vision can move between disciplines while keeping its identity and authorship.

2025From digital canvas to public space

As the collection grew, ISH began bringing it off the screen and into the places that shaped it.

On February 11, 2025, an Infinite Canvas of Rei tote debuted at B&H Creators Presents: Content Chic, a private New York Fashion Week event sponsored by Canon. It was the project’s first physical object: an original digital composition made into something carried through everyday life.

Later in 2025 came a street-level campaign of red stickers introducing Rei’s visual identity. They appeared across New York City, in SoHo, Tribeca, the Lower East Side, Chelsea and Brooklyn, and in Toronto and Tokyo. Away from any gallery wall or digital feed, the stickers let people come across the work unexpectedly, on the same kind of streets that inform its visual language.

2026The digital exhibition

In 2026 the project entered a new phase: an immersive digital exhibition, conceived and creatively directed by ISH.

Instead of scrolling through an online gallery, visitors move through a three-dimensional corridor of vermilion torii gates in Neo-Kyoto at night, where each of the seven works sprays into view as they approach. They can step into any piece to examine its details under a magnifying lens, or dissolve it into thousands of points and turn it in space.

The exhibition was developed through rounds of creative direction, interface design, interactive development and testing on desktop and mobile. It carries the project’s central idea: an infinite canvas is defined not by its dimensions, but by the many ways an artwork can be experienced, interpreted and presented.

Beyond the screen — digital and physical editions

The next chapter brings the work into homes, studios and personal collections, in two formats.

The digital frame presents the Infinite Canvas film looping on a screen set inside a clear acrylic block, an object made for display. Where the exhibition invites you to explore, the frame offers a continuous presentation.

Alongside it, signed archival prints in limited editions offer a more traditional way to collect the original illustrations. Together, the frame and the prints carry the work into new spaces without losing its character.

An evolving canvas

Each stage has given the work a new way to exist. The tote carried it into everyday movement. The stickers placed it in public space. The exhibition created a world to explore. The editions bring it home.

The Infinite Canvas of Rei remains open to interpretation and to further transformation.