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Dear readers and connoisseurs of the bizarrely beautiful, welcome to   SYNESTHESIA GARDEN.
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  • Laura Mulder’s “The Unreal Reality”

    08.30.12

    This stunningly beautiful, structural collection, entitled The Unreal Reality, was designed by Laura Mulder as her graduation project at the Art Academy of Utrecht in 2011. Modeled by Thiska van den Heuvel and Lara Aimee, photographed by Cor and Leonie Baauw of Local Androids, with hair styling by Jenny Kroese.

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    Tags: architectural fashion, avant-garde, avant-garde goth, black garments, conceptual fashion, dark romantic, fashion editorial, high fashion, textured

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  • Olivier de Sagazan

    03.11.12

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    Tags: blood, bodily art, body art, body painting, creepy, dark, distorted bodies, eerie, emotive, evisceration, expressive, flour-white flesh, grotesque, hyperreal, insanity, macabre, psychological horror, realism, red, red and white, surreal, textured, tortured bodies, unnaturally colored flesh, visceral, wound

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  • “Black and Blue” by Emily Kaelin

    09.26.11

    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:

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    Tags: anatomical-themed, bizarre, bodily art, emotive, experimental, expressive, fleshy, hair, installation art, sculptures, textured, visceral, weird sculptures

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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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  • The Stunning Sculpture of Motohiko Odani

    03.06.11

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    Tags: conceptual, installation art, medical braces, realism, sculptures, textured, white

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