Synesthesia Garden
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Dear readers and connoisseurs of the bizarrely beautiful, welcome to   SYNESTHESIA GARDEN.
Here you will find paeans to all varieties of dark, surreal, odd, and provocative contemporary art, style, and creativity.

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  • Miyu Decay’s Bat Skeleton Necklace

    02.18.12

    From {Miyu Decay}

    Tags: animals, black and white, creature, jewelry, sinister arts and crafts, skeleton, spooky animal-themed jewelry, sterling-silver jewelry, wearable art, witchy

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  • Nimit Malavia

    01.28.12

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    Tags: biological/organic/alien, black and white, butterflies, emotive, expressive, hair, hauntingly beautiful, illustrations, inky, intricate line drawings, monsteresque, visceral

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  • Mia Calderone

    12.28.11

    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 Yamamoto and Laura Laine.

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    Tags: articulate hands, black and white, dark fairy tales, emotive, exposed anatomy, expressive, femininity, flowers in hair, ghostly, hair, inky, intricate line drawings, neo-victorian, sexuality, twins/doppelgangers/doubles, victorian

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  • A is for Arsenic: Taxidermia

    12.18.11

    Taxidermia is the new jewelry + apparel collection from Amelia Arsenic/Destroyx‘s brand A is for Arsenic. The black+white-color-themed collection features laser-cut perspex jewelry designs and T-shirts & tanks inspired by taxidermy motifs, Victorian memento mori imagery, and vanitas artwork. The photography below was shot by Melissa Jenkins, with art direction & styling by Amelia Arsenic. See the complete collection here.

    {Taxidermia: a graphic world of dark Victoriana, memento mori and macabre taxidermy. Featuring vicious yet elegant designs with a nod to the past, Taxidermia is a thoroughly contemporary art jewellery and apparel collection created and constructed in London.}

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    Tags: amelia arsenic, animals, antlers, avant-garde goth, black and white, bugs, deer, destroyx, jewelry, macabre, neo-victorian, spooky animal-themed jewelry, taxidermy

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  • Akino Kondoh

    11.01.11

    {Akino Kondoh‘s sketches and drawings for her short animations}

    Beautiful.

    Tags: black and white, bugs, children, creepy, innocence, intricate line drawings, ladybug, nostalgia, red, surreal, sweet/melancholy, trauma, twins/doppelgangers/doubles

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  • “Inner Demons”

    09.24.11

    + Photographer {Jerry Bennet}
    + Model/MUA {Manchester}
    + Wardrobe/styling {Alex London}

    Via Haute Macabre

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    Tags: avant-garde goth, black and white, bones, dark romantic, fashion editorial, feathers, headdresses, spooky animal-themed jewelry, textured

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  • Diego Indraccolo + Pok U Chan

    09.10.11

    These images are from Schön! Magazine, photographed by Diego Indraccolo and illustrated by Pok U Chan.

    Tags: art nudes, avant-garde, black and white, dark ethereal, fashion editorial, ghostly, illustrations, inky, otherworldly photography, surreal, transparency/layering

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  • Una Burke’s META.MORPH

    06.28.11

    Úna Burke’s beautiful A/W 2011 collection of armor/medical-inspired sculptural fashion, META.MORPH, is complemented by stunning wet-plate collodion photography from Andreas Waldschütz and Stefan Sappert. Witness below:

    Further delight yourself by viewing this video, inspired by “the cinepoems of Man Ray and jarring aspects of psychological horror”:

    via Haute Macabre

    Tags: alien beauty, architectural fashion, avant-garde, black and white, conceptual fashion, corsets, fashion films, fashion photography, fashiontech, haute couture, high fashion, man ray, medical braces, medical-themed, military/warrior chic, prosthetic, psychological horror, short films, trauma, una burke, vintage, wet-plate photography

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  • Andrea Galluzzo

    05.07.11

    {from Andrea Galluzzo’s Know Myself in All My Parts series}

    Tags: art nudes, black and white, emotive photography, expressive, mystical, sweet/melancholy, symbolism

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  • Angelspit’s “Carbon Beauty”: Album Art

    04.02.11

    I love the artwork on Angelspit’s new remix CD, Carbon Beauty (released March 8), which is awesome as always. It features a black-and-white animal anatomy and taxidermy theme, and Destroyx and ZooG in some heavy-duty avant-garde all-black fetish texturific garb.


    Destroyx’s outfit for Carbon Beauty album photography

    Check out all the CD booklet images below. All images are clickable for a larger view.

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    Tags: amazing makeup, anatomical-themed, angelspit, animal skulls, avant-garde goth, black and white, CD artwork, deer, destroyx, exposed anatomy, fascinators, skeleton, taxidermy

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