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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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  • 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.

    See more after the cut

    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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  • TRON: Legacy {Fashion}

    01.29.11

    You know what I’m looking forward to in the future? Aside from a cure for cancer, and personal jet-packs, and all that? Slick, form-fitting fashion like that in TRON: Legacy.

    See more after the cut

    Tags: black and white, contemporary architecture, cyber aesthetic, futuristic, interior design, sci-fi

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  • Random image of the day

    01.27.11


    via silent-musings on tumblr

    Tags: art nudes, bizarre, black and white, monsteresque, retro, sepia, surreal

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  • The Drawings of Mako

    12.22.10

    Gorgeously delicate line drawings featuring macabre/erotic depictions of languid maidens tangled up in choking undergrowth, deadly flora, murderous branches, their hearts and anatomies (literally) exposed, from Japanese artist Mako.

    Tags: anatomical-themed, black and white, death and the maiden, dolls, erotic, femininity, intricate line drawings, nature, skeleton, strings, surreal

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  • Eye-Love [006]

    12.14.10


    Johanna Knauer


    Nicola Samori


    Nicoletta Ceccoli


    Laura Wachter

    Check out previous Eye-Love posts here.

    Tags: black and white, nicoletta ceccoli, otherworldly

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  • Eye-Love [005]

    12.04.10


    Iron Maiden by Anja Millen


    Morning Message by Katerina Belkina


    Sinwood Saints by Katja Faith


    Sans Fin III by Isabelle Royet-Journoud


    Photo: Mark Sink and Kristen Hatgi
    Model: Lauren WK


    Bones by Kim Akrigg


    by S.Jin

    Previous Eye-Loves

    Tags: "ethereal woodland maiden" look, anatomical-themed, animal skulls, anja millen, art nudes, black and white, ghosts, hair, hauntingly beautiful, illustrations, katja faith, photorealism, self-portraits, skeleton, tintypes

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  • Vintage Dream Photography by Ellen Rogers

    12.01.10

    Ellen Rogers‘ gorgeous, experimental film photography, reminiscent of 19th-century hand-colored pictures, always makes me feel like I’ve entered an ethereal dreamland that combines the past and the present seamlessly, where beautiful princesses come out of the shadows and mists and lure you. Rogers does everything with analog cameras, film, and darkroom techniques only, with the resulting images being sometimes blurred, overlaid, and having other interesting and charmingly individual effects. Sometimes black-and-white, sometimes with the unreal, super-saturated color of vintage photos, her work is delightful and dreamy and piquant.

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    Tags: art nudes, black and white, colorful, ellen rogers, flowers in hair, headdresses, high fashion, otherworldly photography, twins/doppelgangers/doubles, vintage

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  • The Trembling Fires of Dreams: An Installation

    11.13.10

    In contrast to the last “deer-related” post, this is an intriguing installation artwork by Gene Guynn, titled The Trembling Fires of Dreams, which is made from resin, enamel, and yarn, and depicts a lying white deer being circled by two black jackals. The deer has a triangle opening painted on its side, seeming to indicate a kind of vivisection, the exposure of the deer’s internals, with multicolored strands of yarn stretching up and outwards, and also pinning the deer down to the ground on either side. The jackals are attached to all black, frayed strings.

    Tags: animals, black and white, deer, installation art, strings, twins/doppelgangers/doubles, vivisected

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  • “Before the Tide Comes In” by Zhang Jingna

    10.08.10

    I’ve just seen a fashion editorial featuring Mother of London clothing and photographed by Zhang Jingna over on Twisted Lamb which is incredible. Titled Before the Tide Comes In, Fashion Gone Rogue describes the concept as “a dark maiden of the sea.”

    ♥ Mother of London

    Tags: black and white, dark romantic, fashion editorial, leather, mother of london, natural settings, zhang jingna

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