Synesthesia Garden

Nimit Malavia

L. — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:01:47 +0000

Hell House: The Art of Esao Andrews

L. — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:01:26 +0000

Esao Andrews combines a colorful palette with a Gothic sensibility. Some of his paintings are twists on traditional portraits from earlier epochs akin to the work of Nicola Samorì. Wildly dilapidated and foreboding houses are a recurring motif, and, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson‘s psychological horror stories, depict the inner, psychical falling apart, decay, distortion, and warping. Fairy tales and folklore, including Pinocchio and Thumbelina, loom in the forefront with menacing or perverted appeal. In some works, his vibrant style illustrates the bizarre, the obscene, and aberrations, contrasting atrocious or monstrous things such as a giant, bloated black spider with a symbol of sweetness, purity, and elevation such as a child or an angel. Some of his illustrations are cartoonish, charmingly retro, with a dark, whimsical sense of humor, while others are realistically rendered and Dali-esque, while yet others are macabre and lovelorn, bloody tale-telling depictions.

Kashima Echo

L. — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:56:37 +0000

>>Kashima Echo<<

Horror Artist Karl Persson

L. — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:47:44 +0000

Karl Persson uses a glossy realism to depict horrific themes and evoke the un-plumbable depths of pain, madness, and misery.

Shoko Fujimori

L. — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:44:40 +0000

“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Opening Titles

L. — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:43:34 +0000

The opening titles of David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This awesome sequence was created by motion designer/director Onur Senturk. The song is a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” with vocals by Karen O and music by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross.

Passage from “Outer Dark”

L. — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:18:22 +0000

“Black mandrake sprang beneath the tree as it will where the seed of the hanged falls and in spring a new branch pierced his breast and flowered in a green boutonniere perennial beneath his yellow grin. He took the spare winter snows upon what thatch of hair still clung to his dried skull and hunters that passed that way never chanced to see him brooding among his barren limbs. Until wind had tolled the tinker’s bones and seasons loosed them one by one to the ground below and alone his bleached and weathered brisket hung in that lonesome wood like a bone birdcage.”

—Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark

The Art of ジュウニコ

L. — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:37:31 +0000

>>ジュウニコ/Juuniko<<

If anybody knows more about this artist, or if they have any alternate Websites, I would love to find out.

Mia Calderone

L. — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:24:45 +0000

Ghostly, sinuous, beautifully illustrated apparitions with elongated, eerie, torturously expressive wraith-like hands figure prominently in Mia Calderone‘s exquisite and highly personal ink drawings. Her influences and inspirations include Catholicism, medieval illuminated Bibles, Art Nouveau (particularly Alphonse Mucha and Aubrey Beardsley), and contemporary artists Takato Yama moto and Laura Laine.

Jeremy Enecio

L. — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:46:20 +0000

>>Jeremy Enecio<<