A selection of art & oddities collected by a pessimistic optimist. I am intrigued by things off-kilter. I am seeking the places that don't exist. The furniture does not match.
I've been told my partner, Jason Mitchell & I make phantasmagoric images.
Our photo + still work : Purebred
I also write an art blog : Ransom Notes
I'll tell you all my secrets : Fake Believe
Jason's tumblr : impureacts
I'm nice... mostly.
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portrait painted by Buddy Nestor
sculpture by Carolein Smit
“I am terrified by this dark thing
that sleeps in me;
all day I hear its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.”
- from elm - sylvia plath
via bloodmilk
Jessica Harrison / sculpture / 2008-2010
Jessica Harrison is an intrepid explorer of our deepest discomforts. Her 2010 work blends the innocent charm of ceramic figurines with the corporeal nightmares of disembowelment and other grotesque wounds. In ‘09 she wrapped miniature furniture with dry, wrinkled skin, peppered with ugly sores and hair growth. In ‘08 she created engorged monsters out of pulpy red human tongues thrusting out of delicate miniature furniture.
Harrison is walking a knifes edge to create such remarkable unbalance. I truly adore and admire her unsettling work. Something tells me if she were to tear a crusted scab off of my knee, a stream of red velvet ribbons would fall to the floor.
http://www.jessicaharrison.co.uk
(via Cory Doctorow @ http://boingboing.net )
