Akino Kondoh
{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
Innocent Cadavers, The Flowers of Corruption: Art by Kikyz Ferrer
Tags: abstract, abuse, children, corpses, corrupted flesh, decomposition, exposed anatomy, fleshy, flowers, hauntingly beautiful, injuries, innocence, intricate line drawings, metamorphosis, trauma
Una Burke’s META.MORPH
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
Gorgeous and Grotesque: The Art-Dolls of Nita Collins
Nita Collins’ doll-sculptures creep me out and exhilarate me. Disturbing, beautiful, verging on the grotesque, delicately crafted, flawlessly executed, melancholically tender, realistic to the point of being unnerving – adorned with puckered scars, ragged holes in chests, and a panoply of peculiar, unique marks on their flesh that seem to have come straight from Nita’s imagination and heart – the tortured, sweetly exquisite bodies and faces of these dolls are a singular, constant mixture of provocative and moving. They are lovingly scarred, divinely imagined, different from any other dolls I’ve seen. Nita Collins has a unique talent manifest in these gorgeous, poignant art-dolls. Check out her blog here.
Tags: bizarre, dark fairy tales, distorted bodies, dollflesh, dolls, emotive, expressive, hauntingly beautiful, nita collins, realism, scars, sculptures, strange beauty, sweet/melancholy, trauma, virtuoso, visceral
Bandages and Trauma: The Art of Kwon Kyung Yup
Tags: bandages, emotive, expressive, flowers, hauntingly beautiful, pastel, photorealism, teardrops, trauma, white
Art by 非
His dreamy, unearthly-colored paintings are stunningly beautiful.
Tags: animals, colorful, mystical, realism, surreal, trauma, unnaturally colored flesh, virtuoso
Preternaturally Beautiful Horror Photography by Jenn Violetta
Visit Jenn Violetta on Flickr for more of her wonderful photography.
Tags: abuse, blood, bruises, children, colorful, emotive, flour-white face, hauntingly beautiful, horror photography, injuries, innocence, jenn violetta, medical-themed, military-themed, otherworldly photography, photomanipulation, political, surreal, trauma, violence
Digital Horror: The Stunningly Beautiful Art of Karina Marandjian
Tags: bloodmilk, emotive, fleshy, hooks, karina marandjian, moths, nails, photomanipulation, pierced, red and white, self-portraits, surreal horror, torture, trauma
A Sorta Fairytale: The Art of Chelsea Greene Lewyta
Chelsea Greene Lewyta is an illustrator and artist who deals in the stuff of nightmare fairy tales and tragedies. Her delicate, often sexually charged watercolors portray women whose brutalization and victimization (in short, trauma) is manifested in the natural world (in little creatures, deer, branches, woods) and in surreal distortions of their personal anatomies. The forest as metaphor for fringe existence, twisted psyches, and the modern rendition of fairytale imagery is again a strong motif here, as in DeerlyDeparted’s work (see the previous post). Her work depicts what she describes as “a great schism between the beautiful and the macabre.”
Tags: anatomical-themed, animals, deer, erotic, hunter/hunted, illustrations, modern fairy tales, surreal, trauma, woods
Una Burke’s Medical Armor
I’m probably the last person to blog about this since it’s made the blogosphere rounds, but I thought I would anyway, just for the record. This is Una Burke‘s “medical armor,” a conceptual collection of artwear inspired by prosthetic devices and medical braces and the process of healing from trauma, titled Re.Treat. The warrior-like body armor is reminiscent of medical corsetry, and also of wearing human flesh as a shield against psychological harm. The means of protection also become a means of entrapment, binding the body tightly. She cites a few of her influences as Hans Bellmer, Alexander McQueen, and Erwin Olaf. On her Website she states the pieces were made from “undyed vegetable-tanned leather which is reminiscent of Caucasian flesh” – I couldn’t help finding that last part a little funny.
Tags: avant-garde, collars, corsetry, erwin olaf, fetish, hans bellmer, historically inspired, medical braces, medical-themed, sinister arts and crafts, trauma, una burke
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