or it feels like im an 8 foot tall monster who just caught a little one breaking into my home trying to steal my treasure and in an attempt to distract me from killing him he starts making a video essay.
The cut to Ken Currie’s artwork was the best part of this whole video. I love how he said that he did not want to talk about Ken Currie, but gave us enough pictures to get a good feel of what he did. My god, Ken Currie is one of the best artists out there.
Bibin is actually a professor at my college! He's actually the most chill guy ever and his lectures are awesome to attend! His paintings are absolutely amazing and I'm so happy to see people talking about his art!
dude same. i totally forgot about the face so i was in fullscreen and got jumpscared and at first i kind of liked it? and then when it shown again i felt the worst feeling of dread go throughout my body
Holy shit, that's exactly how I felt about it too. True horror down my spine. Regret watching this before going to sleep (T-T) The only plus side is that nothing else felt anymore scary at least...
That Ken Currie painting of the face used to be in an art gallery in Aberdeen, Scotland. I remember seeing it in the room and not wanting to go near it. You would walk around looking at the other exhibits with this face just staring at you in the corner. When I did eventually go up to it, I remember just having this instinctual urge to back away. Like it was gonna come off the canvas and eat me. I haven’t had that feeling from another painting ever
Ken Currie and similar artists have always sparked this weird interest in me of how disfigured and distorted a human could feasibly be while remaining alive, whereas a pile of viscera is just nature. I feel like his are a lot more based on real injuries and defects than the others, I like all of them still though for different reasons
I've never been able to put that feeling into words, but you nailed it. Something seems alive, but not quite right. Art like theirs reminds me of dementia, specifically art I've seen created by people throughout the progression of the disease. Like someone kind of forgot how faces were supposed to look so they end up jumbled together and disfigured. It makes me feel that same way that (very long) album "Everywhere at the End of Time" by The Caretaker, made me feel. The terror associated with forgetting, feeling lost, feeling confused and scared, feeling utterly helpless but trying so hard to find help.
the silent hill 2 song you played at the ken currie section ["blank fairy" , i believe] gives me the same kind of creeping dread that a lot of these paintings do.. it feels so oppressive and inescapable in its terror . one of my favorite horror game tracks . good choice.!
@@iamjackspyramidshapedhelmet Someone needs to make a video like this about artists, Except this time it's about Contemporary Music artists like Akira Yamaoka. That would be fucking perfect.
Dude you are genuinely my favorite video essayist. The balance between a subject you are actually passionate about and humor is just insane please never stop creating things
I could not look at the Ken Currie works. Had to look away from the screen. (But I also had to peek at each one because they’re really incredible.) I am so disturbed fantastic video thank you
When you mentioned Julia Soboleva and the possible connection between her identity and her art, I almost screamed. My home land is a small island, it’s been occupied by different governments over the years, what’s dreadful is that no matter which government takes over, islanders are always forced to show their allegiance to some country they never set their feet on, or forced into political stances just because of some ancestors lived in a country 200 years ago. because of the island’s natural exclusion, we developed a weird social structure that no matter who took over the place, the commoners’ (old ones or newly immigrated ones) identity would always inevitably merge with preexisting cultures and start to view themselves as “the people of the island” instead of “someone from that country”, but the moment we connected to that identity, we suddenly became a part of the problem, “the island” is not a country, what arrogant fools we are to abandon our “real mother country”? We became a stranger to our land, we are the traitors to our bloodline, we are pests to the political structures. Everything that felt like home melts into a silent scream of horror, you realize your face, your food, your language, everything, all broke into millions of eyes, observing you, almost sneering at your attempts to build a home on this broken land drenched in blood, and who you are is an abominable Frankenstein pieced up brutally by lies created to serve different foreign lands. Everything feels so familiar and cozy, yet there’s always an underlying uneasiness, those gnawing gazes tear through your skin, as if judging you, for intruding your own room. You don’t understand why? What did you do wrong? Why were you punished? Why is everyone angry? And I know I’m projecting hard, but that’s how her arts remind me of, and you put it into words so perfectly, “a child scribbling over a bad memory.” Btw it’s so great to see someone to be able to approach art in such a welcoming fashion, love how you put your thoughts and emotions into the video as if you are chatting with the audience! Look forward to seeing more!
@trevorphilips4155 Ah, I don’t share my data but here’s some context if that helps. I’m from Taiwan, we have been ruled by one Japanese government and three different Chinese governments in history. My grandma lived under the Japanese empire’s colonization, she speaks Japanese and Taiwanese, during her time, people had access to modernized schools, but some big tribes were persecuted, and used for biochemical weapons test grounds. By the time her daughter, my mother was in school, the ROC government from China lost their civil war and fled to the island, they viewed us as “descendants of China, but spies for Japan” and started the reign of white terror, she remembered her classmates disappeared from the crime of “treason”, the said classmate were 12-18. Currently, we are in a state of ambiguity, ROC lost a lot of power after multiple incidents of violence with the Taiwanese. One of the very first examples is the “Beautiful Island incident”. It happened on 12/10 in 1979, International Human Rights Day, when young Taiwanese demanded freedom and rights, they were thrown in prison, faced the death penalty, or killed on the spot. A lot of international media today say Taiwan is a second China, which is true when it comes to political structures in governance, but it’s also silencing our identity as Taiwanese as what always happens in the course of history. Taiwanese were barbarians to the Min kingdom, pirates of Min to the Chin kingdom, later Chinese laborers to Japan, and Japanified traitors to the ROC. Most of our people’s bloodline roughly traced back around 300-150 years ago, and are often a mixture of Chin Han people and islands’ Indigenous people, not the recent immigrants from ROC 60 years ago, although as I previously said in the first comment, Taiwan is a strange place where people’s identities tend to melt into “Taiwanese”, even though this “country” technically never existed. Ever since Japan’s reign, which was the first power that declared itself as the government of the whole island, the Taiwanese demanded sovereignty but were rarely heard. It’s the same with ROC a few years ago. Now, we are closer than ever to finally gaining our true sovereignty, it’s the 3rd time someone from Taiwan originated political party has been elected as president, however, we still have no place in the UN, no official recognition from any country with power, no proper defense from the threat of “the west side”. We are getting there. But if we lose again, we already know how it will go from the previous experience. Hope this helps, from a fellow artist to another haha.
idk if i should thank you for showing me Ken Currie's art or thow hands lol CW: unhinged yapping ahead cuz I can't say shit quickly in all seriousness though, when saw first piece, my entire body (or like my whole being or whatever) reacted in a way that I initially wasn't able to describe. It wasn't quite fear or dread, but maybe something similar? Something right before those two feelings? I wasn't sure right away what to call it, but I think I've figured it out. As more of his works were shown, i began to subconsciously ask "what is that?" "is it even human?" "is it even alive?" "what does it want?" "why is it looking at me like that?" "is it looking at me?" and so on. Of course, I don't yet have answers to any of these questions, but the one thing I was certain of is that whatever or whoever I'm looking at, it doesn't feel like something that was born or created or anything like that. I can't imagine that any being with the power to create would make this, would think to make this, would be able to make this... thing. It did not come from anywhere, it had no beginning and it has no end. It simply is. It came from nothing, it is nothing, but it will not return to nothing. It will remain, silently, for an eternity, in some boundary between existence and nothingness. As i write this, I'm thinking they may serve as a warning of some kind, though they could just as easily be a sign of the end, like the pale horse from the bible (i know there are others but that one is the best example of what im talking about in my opinion so there) , telling us we can do naught but watch and wait, silently, just as they do. It's like the idea of lovecraftian horror taken to its fullest extent. It's something that should be benign because it does literally nothing but exist, and yet the mere knowledge of its existence drives ppl crazy. All that being said, I think I've narrowed down what it is I felt when looking at these pieces: "this shouldn't exist." every single part of me had an immediate and intense aversion to the paintings, yet they trapped me. It felt like a death sentence to look at them, but it felt just as bad, if not worse, to look away. Strangely enough, once all the other pieces went away and it was just the first one on the screen, I felt this feeling even more strongly than I did the first time it was on screen, as though it was easier to digest the less... vaguely human they looked? I experienced the same peak in this emotion when the one with a bunch of people (?) standing around one person (??) and staring (???) up at something (probably) was put on the screen. I dunno if that makes any sense, but i guess I just really didn't like the ones with faces (but like in a good way cuz thats supposed to happen). I guess the best way I can summarize the feeling is by asking you this question: Do you remember a game called They Breathe? Because Ken Currie's works give me the same feeling that I felt when seeing that game for the first time. My reaction would probably be pretty different now, mostly cause I was damn near half as old as I am now when I first saw it, but I remember the feeling that game gave me very well (not sure why, maybe cuz it was one of the few times I felt like that or smth), and I'm certain Currie's works did the same thing. Sorry for my TED talk and thank you for coming to my TED talk now go read comments from other ppl who are smarter and cooler and sexier and more concise than me and have a good day and maybe tell Ken Currie you're sorry he has to have them scary ass ideas for art in his head cuz I think I would cry if any of these things were in my brain ok bye for real this time (cue EARFQUAKE intro)
I saw a Ken Currie piece while I was at the Edinburgh portrait gallery some time back, it was the one with the three surgeons/doctors. I don’t really know much about him but that painting was extremely striking, I really loved the spectral quality the figures had.
Dogs being alert to something you can't sense is forever a nightmare trigger for me after staying at my cousins extremely haunted home in SC. Once you have a 100 lb female Bull Terrier mix crawl up on top of you and cover your neck with her head, protecting you like she would a puppy from an imminent predator, growling at an empty doorway in a house you just checked was empty, only to have your cousin, his wife, and his sister all confirm their own experiences of visually seeing shit...yeah I went from hard skeptic to a very open mind in the course of 12 hours.
"rip off my skin" (positive) is such a delightful treat in art, a personal favorite feeling!! Thank you, I loved this video. It made me want to replay Kitty Horrorshow's ANATOMY (and also rip my skin off
@@joshuabushman7 it's like a compulsion. Like, I feel wrong if I can't write or draw for whatever reason, like an itch that has to be scratched or I'll go crazy. I have so many full notebooks, some of it repetitive but I guess I would say that a lot of it is anxiety based.
Just wanna shout out a small german artist I incidentally know personally by the name of Benjamin Hummitzsch. He's a painter, but most of his work is digitalized and while not nearly as creepy or body horrily (lol) as the examples in your video, I feel if you enjoy this type of art his works are probably up your alley too. It's all very texturous, similar to the kinds of things you see under a microscope, but mapped on human shapes or other things to create a very eery style. I lack the words to describe it better, but I recommend to google his name. My favourite is a piece called "Tesobjekt 341". It's a humanoid figure curled up, but the skin is a deep blue and has potruding outgrowths. like the figure has been crystallized. That captures what I feel when I look at his art, it's unknown and "other" but very much non threatening, because all his subjects look so vulnerable, as if they never asked to even be painted and looked at.
I love how you mix humor in with creepy artworks, like talking about over the hedge while i look at some disturbingly beautiful art. It really speaks to me, i enjoy this content 😫⁉️
Ken Currie for me has always been a perspective of the human horrors-like what we are capable of and who we can be. The pieces have always sparked a thought process that can only be described as primal violence lol. A very bizarre feeling lmao. But this is why art is so powerful! And very cooool video
You know, there are moments in my UA-cam trawls that leave a profound impact on me, that shock me when I first see it, but pull me back again and again to shock me and give me the rush I felt when I first saw it. There always are both audio and visual components - a stunning visual put to the only piece of music that would do it justice. The abrupt transition into Ken Currie was one of those moments for me. The whole video was great, but I'll be coming back to this video for years to come just to experience that bone chilling transition over and over. Well done!
@@RonaldMcDonald-nf9jj Why don't we just call that kenopsia then? I think it fits more the idea than liminal. And the word's etymology is meaningful. Unlike liminal which sounds like a brand now.
being so serious right now but I have watched this video over and over because of the “soundtrack”, the commentary, AND THE KEN CURRIE SECTION COMING OUT OF NOWHERE?? this video scratches some sort of itch in my soul
at 10:50 i recognized the music used in the video and its such a good choice, goes perfectly with these artists, thx for introducing me to Ken Currie's work in particular whew
yeah that could've used at least some kind of heads up. i am not so much scared of body horror as much as i am scared of being plunged into it from an emotional height
Wayne Barlowe shoutout let's gooooo! I have several of his artbooks and his novels, utterly fantastic work, I easily get lost in his hellscapes and figures. The first one you showed, of the demon holding the brick, is the main character in his books, and he's a G. Barlowe has a new artbook in the works as well, focusing on the native creatures of hell, so keep an eye out for that!
I thoroughly enjoyed this please make more, i love the way you explain how you feel about these paintings. i love how many "creepy" paintings in way resonate with us which imo is comforting bit also disturbing.
Pleasant intermission by Alariko. Displaying some of the very good sides of being alive in this world. Didn't know of the other artists so thank you for introducing. Mucho interesting.
"If you hear something wrong, ignore it" is such a creepy concept, I can't believe that I couldn't find anything with that concept except for the stupid window knocking game. 2:40 "just imagine yourself walking up and closing that door" Holy shit
surprised by no phil hale mention!! hes my absolute favorite I feel like these painters are all pretty cool in making something interesting, but they don't feel like full scenes or worlds being represented sometimes. Its like a snippet of an idea every time, kind of a 'Ooooh, look at THIS spooky thing'. every one of the paintings from suguru tanaka, julia soboleva, agostino arrivabene have cool ideas and great artistic execution, but a lot of them are just a floating subject in the middle of the canvas. maybe this is just a contemporary art thing- canvases are smaller now, theres a million artists out there, you need to portray an idea quickly and to the point. Quickness and clarity are great things in some art forms like tattoos, animation, etc. But its not something I really look for in fine art. they're floating little islands of ideas with nothing around them. feels like concept art for a video game. ken currie was probably my favorite artist I'd never heard of before here, he still suffers from single subject in a void disease but his ideas are interesting and his execution is cool. also dragan bibin and zdzisław beksiński are naff as hell thanks for the cool video :)
The monologue for the Ken Curie section was quite literally gold and accurate. If I stare at it for too long, I too feel like something bad is going to happen.
Thanks for spreading the word about Agostino Arrivabene! I found out about him from the cover art of a metal record from I, Voidhanger records and fell in love with his style. Unironically extreme metal album art is a great way to discover underrated contemporary artists
Saw Three Oncologists by Ken Currie in Edinburgh and yeah that painting has so much presence. I might go see it again tomorrow, thanks for reminding me.
this was actually just straight up an amazing video, these styles of artists have been something ive been looking for for a LONG time, and its going to be a huge help for me finding inspiration for classes so my art reflects what i study. Also the little silly bit kept me really entertained i love this!!
This got recommended to me and I clicked IMMEDIATELY. LOVE YOUR VIBE AND LOVE THE WAY YOU PRESENT THESE ARTISTS and discuss their …everything. Your passion and vibe is fantastic. I hope to GOD you make more videos about artists that are provoking like this. ENCORE!!!!!
I've never looked into any kind of art, so when this video popped up on my recommendation it looked cool and I loved it. I never comment, but oh my god when I heard the Ken Currie disclaimer I was like "ahhh how bad could it be" and I genuinely had to look away from the screen,and when I heard you say "I feel like if I look at it for too long something bad will happen" it made my heard race so fast because you literally said exactly what I was thinking. Scared the life out of me. I love art now.
10:55 Wording it like a “divine/religious parasitic growth” is actually cold af imo. That is, judging by the vague context about the artist’s (bloody) religious childhood, and combined with common negative religious experiences ppl may experience 11:30 I spoke too soon 💀
I was going to leave a comment about how much i agree with your Bibin chapter but I was completely GAGGED by the Bradd Pitt factoid at the end. and the actual ending. an amazing ending honestly youre a cinema genius
very much agree on the ken currie part I am, absolutely fascinated by his paintings but I absolutely can't look them up after dark or when I'm alone,, also thanks for the artist recommendations very hot very sexy
I feel a strange kind of comfort while watching art from this 9:37 artist. I have been suffering from Depression and anxiety for so long that i have developed derealization and dissociation. It's a scary experience. Almost feels like I'm drowning in a gooey liquid. I can feel my body too much to the point that i feel nothing at all. I hate how my skin feels, how i have to breathe, how i have to eat, how i must walk , how i must live to keep it moving. My body feels alien . It doesn't feel mine. I just want to peel everything off and set my soul free. And that is why , the art mentioned from here 9:37 feels so strangely comforting. As if I'm finally being heard. As if someone could finally see my pain.
I was watching this in class thanks for jumpscaring me with Ken Currie's art Anyways I love how you went into Agostino's art, never heard of him but the art and your views on it really got ton me in a cool and unnerving way
Saw that first Ken Currie painting in a museum in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was the first painting in the room I was immediately drawn to. I don't know what it was, but there was something about it that had me just wanting to stare. At the same time, I didn't want to be near it, and I absolutely did not want to be in the room alone with it. It's a really weird medium between incredible/fascinating and digging. It feels like the subject is alive, and is fully concious of your presence. Really interesting painting. It's honestly one of the paintings that's stuck with me most out of the many that I've seen in different museums all over the world.
tbh ive first had this video pop up on my yt fyp when it actually came out, i planned on watching it but then forgot about it and now after accidentally clicking on it i just had to subscribe bcs i will be in fact staying here for a long time
Thank you! I'm kind of just floating along as I discover which artists I like and I've added most of who you shined a light on to my list of "who to look into" which is always great. You made a nervous newbie feel welcome, no gatekeeping, no bad vibes. I like how you basically told any would be critics to just keep it to themselves, I also have to say that I truly appreciated the texts you posted regarding religious trauma - I read each one.
Clicked on this expecting the same few artist names; or at least some that I already know of from my years of being a fan of such pieces - only to find four new names to add to my research! Thank you so much, great channel discovery.
Didnt think i would be as deeply uncomfortable, curious, and in as much awe as when i was watching phil tippet's stop motion animated experimental horror film mad god ever again or by anything else, but i am the fool today and we were not ready for this
I’m so thrilled to have found this video. I usually never leave comments, just because I’m more of a lurker, but this video filled me with excitement at seeing how you approach darker art with so much openness. I’ll leave it at that. Thanks for the great video, looking forward to watching the rest of em.
you just scarred my mental health with that ken currie jumpscare, like i know its not gonna be good by how you explain the intermission.but holy crap how i feel so disturbed by it,i can see myself not wanting to go without a light on night time in the near future, have i ever saw this artist in my recomendations wherever it is i would immediately click on the "dont reccomend channels" things i cannot handle it, dont get me wrong his art is a master piece, but lord i would never want to saw him on my recomendation, i am too traumatized. anyway great video you make me aware of some artist who makes beautifull body horror art, i can atleast try to study the gore since i like drawing them on my freetime :3
I think about this video a lot. Often it gets to the point where I eventually pull up UA-cam to watch this video once more. The way you talk about art perfectly describes what I feel when I both look at art and when I put a pencil to paper and start to draw, I don’t know why but I’m glad you managed to do this.
8:00 hii small correction!! Julia said she doesn't feel a sense of CULTURAL identity this video introduced me to her art i did an art assignment about her :)) it's my 4th time watching this lmao keep up the silly stuff
Hi! I did an essay for an art class in highschool over Yūko Tatsushima. Some people find it scary or unsettling or shocking but to me it's so viscerally sad and terrifying it makes my skin crawl. It also deals a lot with struggles of women like purity culture esp in Japan like her painting about the tainted bride covered in blood. There's not much info out there about her barely any but it would be cool if you could look into her and make a video. But beware it has a lot of topics about SA, R**e, stalking, death, grief, suicide and more. The body horror is intense too.
Maybe it's because of my Autism that gives me a poor sense of danger, maybe it's the fact that I grew up on memes and learned how to make anything into a joke, or maybe it's the fact that I've seen enough horror both real and fictional, but I can't say that any of these disturbed me. They actually facinated me and inspire me to seek out similar content. Also I can't unsee this dude dabbing at 11:22
alksdjhlakdw tenia tanto tiempo posponiendo tu video, desde de que apareció en mi feed que ahora lo veo y pienso que tenia que ver este canal antes, nuevo sub!!!!!!
Zdzisław Beksiński was a one-of-a-kind artist whose works embodied an unsettling, humanless otherworldly surrealism. I’m happy that other artists like Suguru are carrying on his legacy.
This tingled me in some kind of way. Anything that makes me not want to look myself in the mirror after dark or make me look over my shoulder after watching it is good in my books. I have seen some of this, but not all artist or every picture. Thank you very much for this! I will absolutely crawl way to deep into this rabbithole at night instead of getting some good hours of sleep.
Yoooo dragan bibin is a teacher at the academy I go to. Really amazing man and a great teacher. So happy to see his paintings be discussed in a video!!
Thank you so much for making this!! For the first time in a long time i feel truly inspired to make art purely for the sake of making something that makes me Feel Something
Arrivabene's work definitely feels familiar to me with religious trauma. similar to what you mentioned in your note on screen, religious trauma doesn't always mean "i hate church because it hurt me and i'll never go near church again", it can be very love/hate. while i've gotten more comfortable in my own connection with god, i'm reminded that i essentially turned my back on a community that knew me since birth because of my queerness. that's a family i cannot rejoin, even if i wanted to. it feels lonely.
Awesome video! watching it through a couple of times has really fuelled my creativity in all forms, and got me thinking about art in a way I haven't before. Just wanted to share some appreciation, have good one!
She is no longer alive (rip queen), but if you haven't, I think you should really check out Louise Bourgeois-- she seems right up your alley. I've written two academic papers about her so far, analyzing how she distorts the human form and turns it into something unsightly and grotesque, but in a subtle way. It doesn't read as a human body until you look at it for a little too long. One of her most stand-out works is based on a cannibalistic fantasy she's had since she was a child of her, her mother, and her sisters attacking and eating her abusive father. Another iconic piece is a representation of her mother through the form of distorted spiders. She's so fucked up, and I LOVE her work
this camera angle makes me feel like a 8 foot tall monster that broke into your home and forced you to make a video essay
I love this idea so I will deem it canon in my own little world c:
or it feels like im an 8 foot tall monster who just caught a little one breaking into my home trying to steal my treasure and in an attempt to distract me from killing him he starts making a video essay.
Canon
I have a 8 foot tall analog horror type monster who can break into your house and infect your computer.
Makes me feel like I’m watching him through a security camera in solitary confinement.
The cut to Ken Currie’s artwork was the best part of this whole video. I love how he said that he did not want to talk about Ken Currie, but gave us enough pictures to get a good feel of what he did. My god, Ken Currie is one of the best artists out there.
Yeh a genuine genius
That ken currie after the intermission is absolutely diabolical
that painting is in my home town! i visited it recently and it looks a bit less creepy in person
I couldnt look away but i didnt want to look at it
I shat my pants when it happened 😭
@@Archie-o2c Right, i planned to skip it but it just draws you in
i love Currie's stuff i really do but naaaah that was some sorta crime xD
Bibin is actually a professor at my college! He's actually the most chill guy ever and his lectures are awesome to attend!
His paintings are absolutely amazing and I'm so happy to see people talking about his art!
Woah
Whaatttt?!!!! That is so cool!
That’s incredible! It must be amazing to have such a talented artist there!
@silentmoone It really is! He's literally so awesome to work with and his critiques are always super helpful!
Do you remember anything he's said about his process or style?
the ken Currie face he opened with horrified me to the point that i didnt feel safe looking away from it but i also hated looking at it
dude same. i totally forgot about the face so i was in fullscreen and got jumpscared and at first i kind of liked it? and then when it shown again i felt the worst feeling of dread go throughout my body
jumpscared the hell out of me. 😭MY GOODNESS HE JUMPSCARED ME AGAIN WHEN THE MUSIC STOPPED
Dont ever want to see that face again, but at the same time Im deeply interested in it
Holy shit, that's exactly how I felt about it too. True horror down my spine. Regret watching this before going to sleep (T-T) The only plus side is that nothing else felt anymore scary at least...
Am I the only one that wanted to give the face……. A big ole kiiiiss????
That Ken Currie painting of the face used to be in an art gallery in Aberdeen, Scotland. I remember seeing it in the room and not wanting to go near it. You would walk around looking at the other exhibits with this face just staring at you in the corner. When I did eventually go up to it, I remember just having this instinctual urge to back away. Like it was gonna come off the canvas and eat me. I haven’t had that feeling from another painting ever
I believe it’s still there!!
What the fuck, I've lived in Aberdeen almost my whole life and been to the art gallery several times but have no memory of that face
Ken Currie and similar artists have always sparked this weird interest in me of how disfigured and distorted a human could feasibly be while remaining alive, whereas a pile of viscera is just nature. I feel like his are a lot more based on real injuries and defects than the others, I like all of them still though for different reasons
That makes sense coming from you
one of my favorite contemporary horror artists commenting on a video about contemporary horror art!! very cool 👍
I've never been able to put that feeling into words, but you nailed it. Something seems alive, but not quite right. Art like theirs reminds me of dementia, specifically art I've seen created by people throughout the progression of the disease. Like someone kind of forgot how faces were supposed to look so they end up jumbled together and disfigured. It makes me feel that same way that (very long) album "Everywhere at the End of Time" by The Caretaker, made me feel. The terror associated with forgetting, feeling lost, feeling confused and scared, feeling utterly helpless but trying so hard to find help.
BEANBAG!
t'is you!
"when the second tower fell.." HELP ME
top ten endings in cinema
"oo uhh"
Was going to upvote but 666 must not be broken
@@OwnyOneyou are not "upvoting" anything corny ass reditor
the silent hill 2 song you played at the ken currie section ["blank fairy" , i believe] gives me the same kind of creeping dread that a lot of these paintings do.. it feels so oppressive and inescapable in its terror . one of my favorite horror game tracks . good choice.!
Akira Yamaoka can be counted among these artists for sure
Black Fairy yea
@@iamjackspyramidshapedhelmet Someone needs to make a video like this about artists, Except this time it's about Contemporary Music artists like Akira Yamaoka. That would be fucking perfect.
Dude you are genuinely my favorite video essayist. The balance between a subject you are actually passionate about and humor is just insane please never stop creating things
This is the first vid I’m seeing and I’m so down for the humor. I don’t watch a ton of video essays anymore but this one had my full attention.
I could not look at the Ken Currie works. Had to look away from the screen. (But I also had to peek at each one because they’re really incredible.) I am so disturbed fantastic video thank you
a quick look and that's it. it's teeeerrifying.
When you mentioned Julia Soboleva and the possible connection between her identity and her art, I almost screamed.
My home land is a small island, it’s been occupied by different governments over the years, what’s dreadful is that no matter which government takes over, islanders are always forced to show their allegiance to some country they never set their feet on, or forced into political stances just because of some ancestors lived in a country 200 years ago.
because of the island’s natural exclusion, we developed a weird social structure that no matter who took over the place, the commoners’ (old ones or newly immigrated ones) identity would always inevitably merge with preexisting cultures and start to view themselves as “the people of the island” instead of “someone from that country”, but the moment we connected to that identity, we suddenly became a part of the problem, “the island” is not a country, what arrogant fools we are to abandon our “real mother country”? We became a stranger to our land, we are the traitors to our bloodline, we are pests to the political structures. Everything that felt like home melts into a silent scream of horror, you realize your face, your food, your language, everything, all broke into millions of eyes, observing you, almost sneering at your attempts to build a home on this broken land drenched in blood, and who you are is an abominable Frankenstein pieced up brutally by lies created to serve different foreign lands.
Everything feels so familiar and cozy, yet there’s always an underlying uneasiness, those gnawing gazes tear through your skin, as if judging you, for intruding your own room. You don’t understand why? What did you do wrong? Why were you punished? Why is everyone angry?
And I know I’m projecting hard, but that’s how her arts remind me of, and you put it into words so perfectly, “a child scribbling over a bad memory.”
Btw it’s so great to see someone to be able to approach art in such a welcoming fashion, love how you put your thoughts and emotions into the video as if you are chatting with the audience! Look forward to seeing more!
I deeply appreciate this comment. Like a lot. Thank you
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you are doing well. Where do u live?
where the fak do you live
@trevorphilips4155 Ah, I don’t share my data but here’s some context if that helps.
I’m from Taiwan, we have been ruled by one Japanese government and three different Chinese governments in history.
My grandma lived under the Japanese empire’s colonization, she speaks Japanese and Taiwanese, during her time, people had access to modernized schools, but some big tribes were persecuted, and used for biochemical weapons test grounds.
By the time her daughter, my mother was in school, the ROC government from China lost their civil war and fled to the island, they viewed us as “descendants of China, but spies for Japan” and started the reign of white terror, she remembered her classmates disappeared from the crime of “treason”, the said classmate were 12-18.
Currently, we are in a state of ambiguity, ROC lost a lot of power after multiple incidents of violence with the Taiwanese. One of the very first examples is the “Beautiful Island incident”. It happened on 12/10 in 1979, International Human Rights Day, when young Taiwanese demanded freedom and rights, they were thrown in prison, faced the death penalty, or killed on the spot.
A lot of international media today say Taiwan is a second China, which is true when it comes to political structures in governance, but it’s also silencing our identity as Taiwanese as what always happens in the course of history. Taiwanese were barbarians to the Min kingdom, pirates of Min to the Chin kingdom, later Chinese laborers to Japan, and Japanified traitors to the ROC.
Most of our people’s bloodline roughly traced back around 300-150 years ago, and are often a mixture of Chin Han people and islands’ Indigenous people, not the recent immigrants from ROC 60 years ago, although as I previously said in the first comment, Taiwan is a strange place where people’s identities tend to melt into “Taiwanese”, even though this “country” technically never existed. Ever since Japan’s reign, which was the first power that declared itself as the government of the whole island, the Taiwanese demanded sovereignty but were rarely heard. It’s the same with ROC a few years ago.
Now, we are closer than ever to finally gaining our true sovereignty, it’s the 3rd time someone from Taiwan originated political party has been elected as president, however, we still have no place in the UN, no official recognition from any country with power, no proper defense from the threat of “the west side”.
We are getting there. But if we lose again, we already know how it will go from the previous experience.
Hope this helps, from a fellow artist to another haha.
@@joshuabushman7 what is the song at 1:40, thxx it has such a creepy vibe
the switch up is crazy💀😭 5:32
That art piece with the dog creeps me the fuck out
The dog sees it. In the hall.
…
But you can’t.
idk if i should thank you for showing me Ken Currie's art or thow hands lol
CW: unhinged yapping ahead cuz I can't say shit quickly
in all seriousness though, when saw first piece, my entire body (or like my whole being or whatever) reacted in a way that I initially wasn't able to describe. It wasn't quite fear or dread, but maybe something similar? Something right before those two feelings? I wasn't sure right away what to call it, but I think I've figured it out.
As more of his works were shown, i began to subconsciously ask "what is that?" "is it even human?" "is it even alive?" "what does it want?" "why is it looking at me like that?" "is it looking at me?" and so on. Of course, I don't yet have answers to any of these questions, but the one thing I was certain of is that whatever or whoever I'm looking at, it doesn't feel like something that was born or created or anything like that. I can't imagine that any being with the power to create would make this, would think to make this, would be able to make this... thing. It did not come from anywhere, it had no beginning and it has no end. It simply is. It came from nothing, it is nothing, but it will not return to nothing. It will remain, silently, for an eternity, in some boundary between existence and nothingness.
As i write this, I'm thinking they may serve as a warning of some kind, though they could just as easily be a sign of the end, like the pale horse from the bible (i know there are others but that one is the best example of what im talking about in my opinion so there) , telling us we can do naught but watch and wait, silently, just as they do. It's like the idea of lovecraftian horror taken to its fullest extent. It's something that should be benign because it does literally nothing but exist, and yet the mere knowledge of its existence drives ppl crazy.
All that being said, I think I've narrowed down what it is I felt when looking at these pieces: "this shouldn't exist." every single part of me had an immediate and intense aversion to the paintings, yet they trapped me. It felt like a death sentence to look at them, but it felt just as bad, if not worse, to look away. Strangely enough, once all the other pieces went away and it was just the first one on the screen, I felt this feeling even more strongly than I did the first time it was on screen, as though it was easier to digest the less... vaguely human they looked? I experienced the same peak in this emotion when the one with a bunch of people (?) standing around one person (??) and staring (???) up at something (probably) was put on the screen. I dunno if that makes any sense, but i guess I just really didn't like the ones with faces (but like in a good way cuz thats supposed to happen).
I guess the best way I can summarize the feeling is by asking you this question: Do you remember a game called They Breathe? Because Ken Currie's works give me the same feeling that I felt when seeing that game for the first time. My reaction would probably be pretty different now, mostly cause I was damn near half as old as I am now when I first saw it, but I remember the feeling that game gave me very well (not sure why, maybe cuz it was one of the few times I felt like that or smth), and I'm certain Currie's works did the same thing.
Sorry for my TED talk and thank you for coming to my TED talk now go read comments from other ppl who are smarter and cooler and sexier and more concise than me and have a good day and maybe tell Ken Currie you're sorry he has to have them scary ass ideas for art in his head cuz I think I would cry if any of these things were in my brain ok bye for real this time (cue EARFQUAKE intro)
Damn bro you should be writing your own video essay lmfao
I saw a Ken Currie piece while I was at the Edinburgh portrait gallery some time back, it was the one with the three surgeons/doctors. I don’t really know much about him but that painting was extremely striking, I really loved the spectral quality the figures had.
SAME SAME SAME
Dogs being alert to something you can't sense is forever a nightmare trigger for me after staying at my cousins extremely haunted home in SC. Once you have a 100 lb female Bull Terrier mix crawl up on top of you and cover your neck with her head, protecting you like she would a puppy from an imminent predator, growling at an empty doorway in a house you just checked was empty, only to have your cousin, his wife, and his sister all confirm their own experiences of visually seeing shit...yeah I went from hard skeptic to a very open mind in the course of 12 hours.
My mom won't stop hanging these up in her kitchen
my mom wont stop telling me to clean the kitchen
Slay
I'm the mom btw
I’m the kitchen
Best mom ever
"rip off my skin" (positive) is such a delightful treat in art, a personal favorite feeling!! Thank you, I loved this video. It made me want to replay Kitty Horrorshow's ANATOMY (and also rip my skin off
I have hypergraphia! I was diagnosed a couple years ago. The obsession goes deep and can be very overwhelming.
Oh that’s actually really interesting. Is it kinda just an outlet for anxiety?
@@joshuabushman7 it's like a compulsion. Like, I feel wrong if I can't write or draw for whatever reason, like an itch that has to be scratched or I'll go crazy. I have so many full notebooks, some of it repetitive but I guess I would say that a lot of it is anxiety based.
8:25, “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” -Picasso
3:17 you had me laughing my ass off, that should not have been that funny holy shit
you and me both like FUCK
Bro i litteraly burt out laughing 😂
right? it was too stupidly funny
3:49 that's a fanart of Bloodborne's Winter Lantern. Really cool.
I noticed that too!
Just wanna shout out a small german artist I incidentally know personally by the name of Benjamin Hummitzsch. He's a painter, but most of his work is digitalized and while not nearly as creepy or body horrily (lol) as the examples in your video, I feel if you enjoy this type of art his works are probably up your alley too. It's all very texturous, similar to the kinds of things you see under a microscope, but mapped on human shapes or other things to create a very eery style. I lack the words to describe it better, but I recommend to google his name. My favourite is a piece called "Tesobjekt 341". It's a humanoid figure curled up, but the skin is a deep blue and has potruding outgrowths. like the figure has been crystallized. That captures what I feel when I look at his art, it's unknown and "other" but very much non threatening, because all his subjects look so vulnerable, as if they never asked to even be painted and looked at.
I love how you mix humor in with creepy artworks, like talking about over the hedge while i look at some disturbingly beautiful art. It really speaks to me, i enjoy this content 😫⁉️
Ken Currie for me has always been a perspective of the human horrors-like what we are capable of and who we can be. The pieces have always sparked a thought process that can only be described as primal violence lol. A very bizarre feeling lmao. But this is why art is so powerful! And very cooool video
You know, there are moments in my UA-cam trawls that leave a profound impact on me, that shock me when I first see it, but pull me back again and again to shock me and give me the rush I felt when I first saw it. There always are both audio and visual components - a stunning visual put to the only piece of music that would do it justice. The abrupt transition into Ken Currie was one of those moments for me. The whole video was great, but I'll be coming back to this video for years to come just to experience that bone chilling transition over and over. Well done!
3:04 Yes!!! Omg that goofy ahh liminal space and backrooms policing annoys me so much. It's just so goofy
Thank you, it literally all started cause someone saw an empty room and thought it looked cool, it’s not that serious lol
yeah liminal spaces are literally just kenopsia + minimalism.
@@RonaldMcDonald-nf9jj had to look up that word in complete honesty. I’m stealing that word now. Thank you
@@RonaldMcDonald-nf9jj Why don't we just call that kenopsia then? I think it fits more the idea than liminal. And the word's etymology is meaningful. Unlike liminal which sounds like a brand now.
@@mutably what were they called before they got that name? i swear they were around longer than that name was.
being so serious right now but I have watched this video over and over because of the “soundtrack”, the commentary, AND THE KEN CURRIE SECTION COMING OUT OF NOWHERE?? this video scratches some sort of itch in my soul
Neat, a video to eat to.
Oh... the art is... huh.
I'm still gunna eat tho.
I got my poopcotn
typo but to funny to fix
@@randompandemonium4823period queen!
Gross
Funny + Timing’s on point + Delicious art talk = an actual banger of a video
Oh thank you
Unironically the only thing this video made me look up was over the hedge by dreamworks. I really needed that nostalgia hit.
10/10 work, as always.
at 10:50 i recognized the music used in the video and its such a good choice, goes perfectly with these artists, thx for introducing me to Ken Currie's work in particular whew
Do you mind telling me what's the name of it? I really liked it when I heard it.
Man I need to know what song that is🙏
5:35 youre so mean for that jesus christ
i knew it was coming but it still scared the living sh*t out fo me
yeah that could've used at least some kind of heads up. i am not so much scared of body horror as much as i am scared of being plunged into it from an emotional height
i was just laughing at the cleansing water sounds as they intensified in volume, it made me jump lmao
Scared the shir out kf me
Thanks for the warning 😅
the way bro is waving his laptop around is about to give me a nervous breakdown. great vid btw!
Wayne Barlowe shoutout let's gooooo! I have several of his artbooks and his novels, utterly fantastic work, I easily get lost in his hellscapes and figures. The first one you showed, of the demon holding the brick, is the main character in his books, and he's a G. Barlowe has a new artbook in the works as well, focusing on the native creatures of hell, so keep an eye out for that!
I’m glad other people like him too, I was gonna go on a whole thing about his creature designs but ended up not doing thay
@@joshuabushman7 if you ever do find a way to squeeze his work into a video, that’d be dope. His alien designs are also 👌👌
I thoroughly enjoyed this please make more, i love the way you explain how you feel about these paintings. i love how many "creepy" paintings in way resonate with us which imo is comforting bit also disturbing.
Pleasant intermission by Alariko. Displaying some of the very good sides of being alive in this world. Didn't know of the other artists so thank you for introducing. Mucho interesting.
6:25 i hate how it got dead silent out of nowhere. the combo of the ken currie art and the silent hill 2 song is chilling. yeah no thanks 😁
7:14 great now Kathe Kollwitz is going to show up in my bathroom mirror
"If you hear something wrong, ignore it" is such a creepy concept, I can't believe that I couldn't find anything with that concept except for the stupid window knocking game.
2:40 "just imagine yourself walking up and closing that door" Holy shit
surprised by no phil hale mention!! hes my absolute favorite
I feel like these painters are all pretty cool in making something interesting, but they don't feel like full scenes or worlds being represented sometimes. Its like a snippet of an idea every time, kind of a 'Ooooh, look at THIS spooky thing'.
every one of the paintings from suguru tanaka, julia soboleva, agostino arrivabene have cool ideas and great artistic execution, but a lot of them are just a floating subject in the middle of the canvas. maybe this is just a contemporary art thing- canvases are smaller now, theres a million artists out there, you need to portray an idea quickly and to the point. Quickness and clarity are great things in some art forms like tattoos, animation, etc. But its not something I really look for in fine art.
they're floating little islands of ideas with nothing around them. feels like concept art for a video game.
ken currie was probably my favorite artist I'd never heard of before here, he still suffers from single subject in a void disease but his ideas are interesting and his execution is cool.
also dragan bibin and zdzisław beksiński are naff as hell
thanks for the cool video :)
The monologue for the Ken Curie section was quite literally gold and accurate. If I stare at it for too long, I too feel like something bad is going to happen.
Thanks for spreading the word about Agostino Arrivabene! I found out about him from the cover art of a metal record from I, Voidhanger records and fell in love with his style. Unironically extreme metal album art is a great way to discover underrated contemporary artists
Wow you somehow managed to make the Ken Currie segment so much scarier than I imagined when I heard you saying to skip it at the beginning 👏 👏 👏
Saw Three Oncologists by Ken Currie in Edinburgh and yeah that painting has so much presence. I might go see it again tomorrow, thanks for reminding me.
this was actually just straight up an amazing video, these styles of artists have been something ive been looking for for a LONG time, and its going to be a huge help for me finding inspiration for classes so my art reflects what i study. Also the little silly bit kept me really entertained i love this!!
This got recommended to me and I clicked IMMEDIATELY. LOVE YOUR VIBE AND LOVE THE WAY YOU PRESENT THESE ARTISTS and discuss their …everything. Your passion and vibe is fantastic. I hope to GOD you make more videos about artists that are provoking like this. ENCORE!!!!!
8:36 that image immediately burned a primal fear of monsters in me bro.
damn, this is criminally underrated! Keep up the good work!
I've never looked into any kind of art, so when this video popped up on my recommendation it looked cool and I loved it. I never comment, but oh my god when I heard the Ken Currie disclaimer I was like "ahhh how bad could it be" and I genuinely had to look away from the screen,and when I heard you say "I feel like if I look at it for too long something bad will happen" it made my heard race so fast because you literally said exactly what I was thinking. Scared the life out of me. I love art now.
the way you talked about ken currie hurt me. ken curries art hurts me.
I want more videos like these! They expose the artists and your commentary is very satisfying.
please make more of these you've given me fuel for sooo much research and i need more ❤️
Agreed!!! Need more of this
the works that you showed from agostino were honestly comforting to me, weirdly. like, if I was there, with her, (10:53) I would feel safe.
10:55
Wording it like a “divine/religious parasitic growth” is actually cold af imo. That is, judging by the vague context about the artist’s (bloody) religious childhood, and combined with common negative religious experiences ppl may experience
11:30
I spoke too soon 💀
I was going to leave a comment about how much i agree with your Bibin chapter but I was completely GAGGED by the Bradd Pitt factoid at the end. and the actual ending. an amazing ending honestly youre a cinema genius
A child scribbling over a bad memory. That’s beautiful and would be nice as a simile lmao
very much agree on the ken currie part I am, absolutely fascinated by his paintings but I absolutely can't look them up after dark or when I'm alone,, also thanks for the artist recommendations very hot very sexy
I feel a strange kind of comfort while watching art from this 9:37 artist. I have been suffering from Depression and anxiety for so long that i have developed derealization and dissociation. It's a scary experience. Almost feels like I'm drowning in a gooey liquid.
I can feel my body too much to the point that i feel nothing at all. I hate how my skin feels, how i have to breathe, how i have to eat, how i must walk , how i must live to keep it moving. My body feels alien .
It doesn't feel mine. I just want to peel everything off and set my soul free.
And that is why , the art mentioned from here 9:37 feels so strangely comforting. As if I'm finally being heard. As if someone could finally see my pain.
I was watching this in class thanks for jumpscaring me with Ken Currie's art
Anyways I love how you went into Agostino's art, never heard of him but the art and your views on it really got ton me in a cool and unnerving way
Saw that first Ken Currie painting in a museum in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was the first painting in the room I was immediately drawn to. I don't know what it was, but there was something about it that had me just wanting to stare. At the same time, I didn't want to be near it, and I absolutely did not want to be in the room alone with it. It's a really weird medium between incredible/fascinating and digging. It feels like the subject is alive, and is fully concious of your presence. Really interesting painting. It's honestly one of the paintings that's stuck with me most out of the many that I've seen in different museums all over the world.
do a video on conceptual body art / performance art, it will be up your alley im sure
tbh ive first had this video pop up on my yt fyp when it actually came out, i planned on watching it but then forgot about it and now after accidentally clicking on it i just had to subscribe bcs i will be in fact staying here for a long time
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Thank you! I'm kind of just floating along as I discover which artists I like and I've added most of who you shined a light on to my list of "who to look into" which is always great. You made a nervous newbie feel welcome, no gatekeeping, no bad vibes. I like how you basically told any would be critics to just keep it to themselves, I also have to say that I truly appreciated the texts you posted regarding religious trauma - I read each one.
1:44 we're not scared of the dark but we are scared of how you're holding your laptop
Clicked on this expecting the same few artist names; or at least some that I already know of from my years of being a fan of such pieces - only to find four new names to add to my research! Thank you so much, great channel discovery.
Didnt think i would be as deeply uncomfortable, curious, and in as much awe as when i was watching phil tippet's stop motion animated experimental horror film mad god ever again or by anything else, but i am the fool today and we were not ready for this
I’m so thrilled to have found this video. I usually never leave comments, just because I’m more of a lurker, but this video filled me with excitement at seeing how you approach darker art with so much openness. I’ll leave it at that.
Thanks for the great video, looking forward to watching the rest of em.
you just scarred my mental health with that ken currie jumpscare, like i know its not gonna be good by how you explain the intermission.but holy crap how i feel so disturbed by it,i can see myself not wanting to go without a light on night time in the near future, have i ever saw this artist in my recomendations wherever it is i would immediately click on the "dont reccomend channels" things
i cannot handle it, dont get me wrong his art is a master piece, but lord i would never want to saw him on my recomendation, i am too traumatized. anyway great video you make me aware of some artist who makes beautifull body horror art, i can atleast try to study the gore since i like drawing them on my freetime :3
I think about this video a lot. Often it gets to the point where I eventually pull up UA-cam to watch this video once more. The way you talk about art perfectly describes what I feel when I both look at art and when I put a pencil to paper and start to draw, I don’t know why but I’m glad you managed to do this.
8:00 hii small correction!! Julia said she doesn't feel a sense of CULTURAL identity
this video introduced me to her art i did an art assignment about her :)) it's my 4th time watching this lmao keep up the silly stuff
Oh nice, thank you
Hi! I did an essay for an art class in highschool over Yūko Tatsushima. Some people find it scary or unsettling or shocking but to me it's so viscerally sad and terrifying it makes my skin crawl. It also deals a lot with struggles of women like purity culture esp in Japan like her painting about the tainted bride covered in blood. There's not much info out there about her barely any but it would be cool if you could look into her and make a video. But beware it has a lot of topics about SA, R**e, stalking, death, grief, suicide and more. The body horror is intense too.
''Everywhere at the end of the world'' playing in the background is very fitting.
hi i think i’m in love with you, also i think you should look at the artwork of Jenny Saville, especially ‘branded’
Maybe it's because of my Autism that gives me a poor sense of danger, maybe it's the fact that I grew up on memes and learned how to make anything into a joke, or maybe it's the fact that I've seen enough horror both real and fictional, but I can't say that any of these disturbed me. They actually facinated me and inspire me to seek out similar content.
Also I can't unsee this dude dabbing at 11:22
Ken Curries art gave me goose pumbs
i hate how i looked closer during the intermission and got jumpscared from the ken currie face
alksdjhlakdw tenia tanto tiempo posponiendo tu video, desde de que apareció en mi feed que ahora lo veo y pienso que tenia que ver este canal antes, nuevo sub!!!!!!
Zdzisław Beksiński was a one-of-a-kind artist whose works embodied an unsettling, humanless otherworldly surrealism. I’m happy that other artists like Suguru are carrying on his legacy.
This tingled me in some kind of way. Anything that makes me not want to look myself in the mirror after dark or make me look over my shoulder after watching it is good in my books. I have seen some of this, but not all artist or every picture. Thank you very much for this! I will absolutely crawl way to deep into this rabbithole at night instead of getting some good hours of sleep.
8:46 how I take it is an adult looking back at a bad memory they had as a child and being haunted by it
Thank you so much! I absolutely love this kind of art and to have names and examples is awesome. I need their artwork in some form or another.
The Ken Currie painting used to be in the entrance area of the art gallery, so you couldn't miss it. Seen it as kid, never forgot it
that was actually beautiful, 10/10 you’re interpretations of all the art was soooo fascinating and interesting to listen to
Yoooo dragan bibin is a teacher at the academy I go to. Really amazing man and a great teacher. So happy to see his paintings be discussed in a video!!
Dude I love your videos already. This was a good video that gave good writing, ranting and showing art without being boring.
I both adore and despise this type of art, my spine crawls just from looking at it, yet I can't look away.
This has been in my recommended for ages and I'm so glad I finally decided to watch it
Love the just blatant Bloodborne reference in Suguru Tanaka’s painting. Anyone who’s played the game will immediately know which one it is.
Thank you so much for making this!! For the first time in a long time i feel truly inspired to make art purely for the sake of making something that makes me Feel Something
Arrivabene's work definitely feels familiar to me with religious trauma. similar to what you mentioned in your note on screen, religious trauma doesn't always mean "i hate church because it hurt me and i'll never go near church again", it can be very love/hate. while i've gotten more comfortable in my own connection with god, i'm reminded that i essentially turned my back on a community that knew me since birth because of my queerness. that's a family i cannot rejoin, even if i wanted to. it feels lonely.
Awesome video! watching it through a couple of times has really fuelled my creativity in all forms, and got me thinking about art in a way I haven't before. Just wanted to share some appreciation, have good one!
Some of these make me hold my breath without even noticing
instantly subscribed! you speak so freely and you're funny yet so articulate and well spoken. GOOD vIDEOOO
the one at 12:55 is used for an album cover of a black metal band called akhlys
Your videos are very refreshing!! Binging now!!
She is no longer alive (rip queen), but if you haven't, I think you should really check out Louise Bourgeois-- she seems right up your alley. I've written two academic papers about her so far, analyzing how she distorts the human form and turns it into something unsightly and grotesque, but in a subtle way. It doesn't read as a human body until you look at it for a little too long. One of her most stand-out works is based on a cannibalistic fantasy she's had since she was a child of her, her mother, and her sisters attacking and eating her abusive father. Another iconic piece is a representation of her mother through the form of distorted spiders. She's so fucked up, and I LOVE her work