July, 2010
Takato Yamamoto
An illustrator of talent and perversion, his methodically precise, highly detailed drawings are dark and erotic, mystical and alluring.
Tags: doll-like, illustrations, takato yamamoto
Poetry: Her Sweet Anatomy
“Number 8″ from Pictures of the Gone World
by Lawrence FerlinghettiIt was a face which darkness could kill
in an instant
a face as easily hurt
by laughter or light‘We think differently at night’
she told me once
lying back languidlyAnd she would quote Cocteau
‘I feel there is an angel in me’ she’d say
‘whom I am constantly shocking’Then she would smile and look away
light a cigarette for me
sigh and riseand stretch
her sweet anatomylet fall a stocking
Tags: poetry
Wahre Märchen: The Art of Annie Bertram
I did an interview via email with artist Annie Bertram recently for Sorean Magazine. The text of the article is pasted below. Annie is an amazing artist who puts her heart into what she does, extremely kind, and I’m so glad I got to do this interview with her. She was wonderful and gave some great answers.
Tags: annie bertram, decaying architecture, floria sigismondi, forgotten places, h. r. giger, interviews, modern fairy tales, otherworldly photography, vecona, victorian
Poetry Corner: “Lady Lazarus”
I have done it again.
One year in every ten
I manage it–A sort of walking miracle, my skin
Bright as a Nazi lampshade,
My right footA paperweight,
My face a featureless, fine
Jew linen.Peel off the napkin
O my enemy.
Do I terrify?–The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
The sour breath
Will vanish in a day.Soon, soon the flesh
The grave cave ate will be
At home on meAnd I a smiling woman.
I am only thirty.
And like the cat I have nine times to die.This is Number Three.
What a trash
To annihilate each decade.What a million filaments.
The peanut-crunching crowd
Shoves in to seeThem unwrap me hand and foot–
The big strip tease.
Gentlemen, ladiesThese are my hands
My knees.
I may be skin and bone,Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman.
The first time it happened I was ten.
It was an accident.The second time I meant
To last it out and not come back at all.
I rocked shutAs a seashell.
They had to call and call
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.- from “Lady Lazarus” by Sylvia Plath
Tags: poetry, resurrection, sylvia plath
Dolls and Gals: The Art of Caryn Drexl
Caryn Drexl is a remarkable and original experimental photographer based in Palm Coast, Florida. Her photography is conceptual and expressive, and explores themes of innocence, femininity, motherhood, and sexuality. It also has a vintage aspect/aesthetic. Teacups, baby dolls, divested braids of hair (and hair in general), things in models’ mouths are all motifs. Many of her photographs feature her as the subject.
Tea TimeTags: 1920s, caryn drexl, dolls, femininity, hair, teacups, victorian, vintage
Sam Weber
Sam Weber is an amazing illustrator and artist.
His Website
Tags: illustrations, sam weber, surreal
