Musings Across A Continuum

Art that takes us dark and kooky places.

Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Creepy Pictures, Horror Art

I feel it’s time to share some of the other sides of my horror interests. We have traveled through the dark and twisted forests of TV, film, games and various forms of literature, ducking swooping owls (who are not what they seem), flailing limbs, evil children and women, crab walking upside down.

To enrich our continuing adventure across the musing continuum I thought I would share with you an artist I have recently discovered, via a book given to me be a charming young gentleman, an artist who has quickly become a favourite.

Camille Rose Garcia, is an artist based in Los Angeles, she was born there and grew up in LA in the 1970’s. Her bio states that: “…she grew up in the generic suburbs of Orange County, visiting Disneyland and going to punk shows with the other disenchanted youth of that era.”

Garcia’s work is communicated via cartoon character based creatures, invokes disturbing yet cute images of people and creatures in dark places, enacting the themes of humanities current horrors and challenges. Her work’s maintain an ambience though which she creates by using a palette of certain colours in order to portray her theme. Her sets of work include ‘The Saddest Place on Earth’ and ‘Ultraviolence Land’. The book I recently purchased was ‘The Saddest Place on Earth’, which is a commentary on many things including the war in Iraq, the use of pharmaceuticals and the culturally enforced belief that we must always be happy. The palette used is one of oranges, reds, browns and blacks, merging to greens and purple, conveying a definite feeling of anger, frustration, oppression and disease.

Her work is twisted, cute, yet haunting and I feel it reinforces the thoughts of many, obviously myself included, that animated/cartoon based art can portray and emote some of the evils of our species; causing us to reflect on where we are today and the crossroads of where we should go tomorrow.

Ms Harker