Synesthesia Garden » hair http://synesthesiagarden.com a weird art + style blog Wed, 23 May 2012 04:49:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Eugenio Recuenco http://synesthesiagarden.com/2012/02/20/eugenio-recuenco-2/ http://synesthesiagarden.com/2012/02/20/eugenio-recuenco-2/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:47:20 +0000 L. http://synesthesiagarden.com/?p=10441 >Eugenio Recuenco]]>

>>Eugenio Recuenco<<

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>>Nimit Malavia<<

]]> http://synesthesiagarden.com/2012/01/28/nimit-malavia/feed/ 0 The Art of ジュウニコ http://synesthesiagarden.com/2012/01/01/the-art-of-%e3%82%b8%e3%83%a5%e3%82%a6%e3%83%8b%e3%82%b3/ http://synesthesiagarden.com/2012/01/01/the-art-of-%e3%82%b8%e3%83%a5%e3%82%a6%e3%83%8b%e3%82%b3/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:37:31 +0000 L. http://synesthesiagarden.com/?p=9128 >ジュウニコ/Juuniko]]>

>>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.

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Related posts:
Death and the Maiden: The Art of Abigail Larson
Nicole Absher
The Drawings of Mako
S. Jin’s “Black Moon Cult” Series

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Black and Blue is a sculpture piece by Emily Kaelin, resembling a disembodied clump of long black hair ethereally embedded with bright blue butterfly wings, also severed from their proper owners. It is made of synthetic hair, Morpho butterfly wings, and glitter.

Emily Kaelin is a young artist who constantly deals with repulsion vs. beauty, in installations, mixed-media art, and paintings, mimicking human organic materials that are generally thought to be disgusting, such as flesh, hair, blood, and bone, and creating pieces that are conflicting, visceral, and unlike anything else out there, pushing her art farther and into new territories.

She describes her own art in these words: “push and pull of appealing and repellent, comforting and upsetting, lovely and ugly; inability to look at or render self objectively; impulse and intuition and instinct; emotionality; flesh; hairiness”

Her art constantly intersects the descriptors of ugly, strangely beautiful, alluring, repulsive, bizarre, off-putting, interesting, intriguing, fleshy, raw, delicate, otherworldly, and original. It expresses agony incarnate in the body, in its materials of ink and parchment (blood and skin).

A few more examples of her work below:

I want to explore how our thoughts, feelings, experiences, and pains are housed in our bodies; how our bodies act as a sort of lens, filter, protection, and reflection of everything that is housed within.

Studies in the figure and portraiture have led me to a particular fascination with the self-portrait, mainly because I find it nearly impossible to view myself objectively enough so as to render myself in a realistically accurate way.

Often I depict emotional pain using imagery that suggests physical bodily harm. Dripping paint, flesh colored wax, gauze-like cheesecloth, raw meat, matted and tangled hair, and needles are all materials I have used to achieve this effect. These seemingly grotesque items are almost always combined with delicate mark-making, inviting colors, elements of adornment such as seed pearls, glitter, and lace, intricate decorative details, or other reassuring elements that create work that seeks to be both compelling and repellent.
– Emily Kaelin

Also be sure to check out her journal and blog, aptly titled My Filthy Excess.

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>>Ekaterina and Elena Popovy’s Website<<

See my previous post on the Popovy sisters' beautiful art dolls here.

Mindblowing.

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Liza Corbett‘s beautiful watercolors and whispery, precise linework, which seem to have a kind of soft translucency, depicting maidens of yore and mythology, entangled with animals, nature, their own hair, are displaying alongside Jeremy Hush‘s breathtaking work at Loved to Death’s Articulated Gallery (’til the 29th of September).

Also be sure to check out her Etsy shop for original artwork and gorgeous art dolls!


I picked up this beauty, Emmeline’s Ghost, from Liza Corbett’s Etsy shop!

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>>Merve Morkoç<<

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Photography by William Selden, styling by Katie Shillingford, and modeling by Katlin Aas
+ for Dazed and Confused Magazine, November 2009

]]> http://synesthesiagarden.com/2011/06/13/ice-queen-fashion-editorial-for-dazed-and-confused-nov-09/feed/ 0 Swan Bones Theater: The Art of Kelly Louise Judd http://synesthesiagarden.com/2011/01/31/swan-bones-theater-the-art-of-kelly-louise-judd/ http://synesthesiagarden.com/2011/01/31/swan-bones-theater-the-art-of-kelly-louise-judd/#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:30:08 +0000 L. http://synesthesiagarden.com/?p=6791 Swan Bones Theater presents: creepy, Victorian-inspired, dark-fairy-tale-like paintings and sketches by Kelly Louise Judd. Thin frail little figures with spindly limbs and dolorous faces peer out at us through the dull dust of age, perfectly framed in their strange, uncanny little portraits and frozen in time. They are entangled in their own massive coils of braided hair, floating in dark staged spaces, watering the mournful desolate landscape with widow’s tears, and lying fallen upon the earthen floor of enchanted or haunted woods. Figures with deer’s heads are either their handmaidens or eerie guards. Crows, wolves, rabbits, owls, swans, and other creatures also have their places. Reminiscent of children’s books illustrations for a bygone era, these dark, austere, compact works have a quiet sense of yesteryear’s tragedy, melodrama, malevolence, and strange, lovely otherworldliness.

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