In a way, being in touch with the dark side of what’s happening all around the globe helps keep us in balance, penetrates our bourgeois cocoons and reminds us that we cannot control life and death, acts of nature (or God or whatever you want to call it), and ultimately our fellow humans.
If grotesque and goth art helps us work out those issues, well I suppose it’s going to be around forever.
Shop local, shop artists this holiday season, a short list
Memento Mori, A trip through skulls, Sotheby’s, shot glasses and soap
The quintessence of collaboration – Damon Kowarsky and Atif Khan in Hybrid at Twelve Gates Arts