Carolina Rodríguez Fuenmayor, on Instagram as @alterlier, is a Colombian illustrator who explores the thin line between reality and dream, emotion and symbolism through her work. Her digital portraits are inner landscapes, fragments of consciousness that dissolve into flowers, pixels, colorful fog, and oneiric distortions. Each image feels like a vision interrupted halfway, as if the illustration itself were trying to remember something it had forgotten.

The foundation of her visual language is rooted in the influences of Japanese animation, video games, surrealism, and the visual glitches of the digital age. But the real strength of her work lies in the ability to convey complex emotions with just a few elements: a fragmented human figure, a chromatic explosion, a light fading into skin. The result is an illustration suspended in space, halfway between the intimate and the universal, between pain and ecstasy.

In her portfolio – which ranges from personal projects to collaborations with names like Netflix, Marvel, Disney, and Rolling Stone – recurring themes emerge: identity, memory, the body, solitude. Each illustration is a visual fragment of a larger narrative that Carolina builds silently, image by image.

Her illustrations thrive on texture and depth, as if each stroke were a trace left on a dream already faded. The world of Alterlier is hypnotic, layered, poetic: a space to get lost in to find oneself again, where every image speaks a language made of symbols and sensations. A body of work that doesn’t just catch the eye but reaches that corner of the mind where the truest things remain.

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