Friday, October 5, 2007

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: HALLOWEEN REDUX

10.05.07

Come one, come all… Step right up and see the amazing, the horrifying and sometimes stupefying Cabinet of Curiosities!

Shudder at the Bell Witch’s devious apothecary!
Recoil in horror at the Medusa Lisa!
Be repulsed by a gruesome assembly of rare and grotesque oddities!

See the Halloween Redux and explore the numerous projects from last year’s creative frenzy!

Let me first introduce you to the horrifying visage of the MEDUSA LISA by Leonardo De Vilry. Please keep your eyes averted and do not stare directly at the portrait folks, she may turn you to stone with her ghastly gorgon gaze.

Bastardization of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo De Vinci, in acrylic paints on cold press watercolor paper. For prints please visit: www.cafepress.com/nightfallaccess

The second stop on our trek through the bizarre is the modern masterpiece THREE MONSTERS by Lowblow Pickaxeso. These shambling monsters will give you cubist nightmares.

Even worse bastardization of Three Musicians by Pablo Picasso, in acrylic paints on cold press watercolor paper. For prints please visit: www.cafepress.com/nightfallaccess

The next stop in our ghoulish gallery is a fragment of the title page from the accursed book Necronomicon by the “Mad Arab” Abdul Alhazred. It is the only known portion of the original Arabic text known to exist. A design based on the fictional book first conceptualized by writer H. P. Lovecraft. Drawing paper aged with dirt, burned edges and paint. The Arabic, I am told, is actually just nonsense and unfortunately does not say what I had intended. For those of us who do not read Arabic we can pretend it is correct until I get around to creating a more “accurate” recreation.

The collection you see before you has been donated from several anonymous contributors in the cryptozoology field, as well as more notorious patrons from H. P. Lovecraft’s estate and the Arkham University.
If you will look closely you will see the fetal specimens of Cthulhu, a Dune worm, and an El-Chupacabra as well as some gruesome spare parts found in Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory.

Sculpy creations built around tin foil core and painted with acrylics. Handwritten labels aged and burned for effect. Specimen bottles contain water and highlighter ink to glow in the dark.

Straight from the study of Edgar Alan Poe comes our next exhibit, the nefarious raven, finally silenced… forevermore. The doomed raven resides in a charnel cage of human bones, extracted from the defiled graves of nefarious murderers.

Halloween store “raven” in a Sculpy bone cage. Cage was manufactured with a wire core for the bones and a cardboard floor under the clay. Painted with acrylic paints and decorated with “spider webbing.”

Our last macabre spectacle was discovered near the site of the historic Bell Witch haunting and many believe these gruesome ingredients and potions may have been a selection from the witch’s own loathsome apothecary.

Thrift store bottles filled with various found objects. Computer generated labels.

This concludes our sinister excursion through the Halloween Redux Cabinet of Curiosities. I hope you enjoyed your visit...
Lyzard