Tokebi
TOKEBI is the artistic alias of Bernal Aguilar, a Guatemalan visual artist and illustrator whose work explores contemporary interpretations of Memento Mori through psychedelic, lowbrow, and symbolic imagery.
Born in Guatemala and later based in Seoul, South Korea, Aguilar began his artistic trajectory creating neon skull illustrations, street art, and poster designs for underground music scenes. This period shaped his distinctive visual language, blending retro psychedelia, sci-fi, cyberpunk, and folklore into a cohesive symbolic universe.
In 2019, his work gained international recognition when the Grammy-winning metal band Mastodon selected him to create official artwork for their European tour. Since then, TOKEBI has continued developing a body of work centered on skull iconography as a narrative device; representing identity, impermanence, ritual, and transformation across imagined timelines and mythic civilizations.
His practice moves fluidly between illustration, wearable art, and conceptual storytelling, presenting skulls not as decorative motifs but as travelers, relics, and witnesses of human and cosmic history. Visually, his work evokes the collision of 1960s science fiction aesthetics with ancient myth, spiritual symbolism, and speculative futures.
TOKEBI is widely regarded as a leading figure in the Guatemalan lowbrow art movement and forms part of the contemporary Memento Mori discourse, using modern skull imagery to confront mortality while celebrating intensity, imagination, and human presence.
OUR THEME AND INNER STORY:
TOKEBI exists as a cyber-apothecary drifting through the galaxy, supplying skull travelers with essential artifacts for their journeys across space, time, and imagination.
Within this universe, each piece functions as a relic:
potions infused with ancient knowledge, talismans recovered from lost civilizations, and charms engineered with raw cyberpunk technology. These objects are not accessories—they are symbols carried by travelers moving between worlds.
Our visual language is built around retro-futuristic alien skulls, eternal wanderers who traverse galaxies in search of experience, memory, and meaning. Each design merges vintage energy with sci-fi and cyberpunk aesthetics, drawing inspiration from 1960s psychedelia, retro science-fiction cinema, and the myths, rituals, and cosmologies of ancient cultures.
Every skull carries a story.
Some speak of distant planets. Others of forgotten eras on Earth; the place these travelers return to most often, drawn by its intensity, beauty, and chaos.
TOKEBI pieces are designed as wearable artifacts—objects that connect the wearer to this expanding universe while supporting independent creation. All items are produced in limited runs, emphasizing intention, narrative, and individuality.
Claim your artifact.
Carry the story forward.
Join the journey.
Contact
For commercial inquiries, problems with your order, or artistic collaborations please email us at 
info[at]tokebi.net