Note: Contains images that may be considered graphic and disturbing to some readers. Annabel de Vetten makes cakes that will appeal to your taste buds while disturbing your imagination. Under the name “Conjurer’s Kitchen,” de Vetten constructs icing-covered baked goods that resemble everything from innocent tiered wedding cakes to writhing tentacles and spilling organs. Using […]
Category: Animals
Creepy Crocheted Animal Skeletons by Caitlin McCormack
Caitlin McCormack is a Philadelphia-based artist who crochets delicate skeletons using cotton string stiffened with glue. Her brittle creations—which include birds, small mammals, and bizarre hybrids—resemble archeological specimens, pressed in the earth and decayed by time. They writhe, unravel, and cluster together, embodying both the despair of extinction and the persistence of memory. Images © […]
Placide Avantia Tattoos the Dark Aesthetics of Nature and Geometry
Placide Avantia is a tattoo artist based in Aix-en-Provence, France. Combining animal imagery with geometric shapes and esoteric symbols, she etches (using vegan ink) the darkest aspects of nature, illuminating the symmetry, spiritualism, and cycles of life and death that permeate the natural world. She works from her private studio Fuscare, which she designed with […]
Tattoos Fuse Fine Art with Polygons by Renan Batista
Renan Batista produces colorful tattooed portraits of animals and people. Working in a neo-traditional style, the Berlin-based creative is influenced by fine art painting techniques as well as polygonal shapes. His images are shaded to appear three-dimensional—Batista cites Paulo Frade as a teacher—and are also fractured by small, thinly-outlined flattened forms. Together, these approaches are […]
10 Rogue Taxidermy Artists Who Create Imaginative Sculptures
The art of taxidermy has been practiced for a long time; the ancient Egyptians embalmed and entombed cats, birds, and other creatures. Over the millennia, animals have been mounted as hunters’ trophies and museum artifacts. It is an odd practice, one that is traditionally pulled between human pride, symbolism, and a desire to memorialize deceased […]
Street Art Duo NEVERCREW Show Their Concerns with Planet Earth
Staying true to their focal and ongoing analysis of the relationship between humankind and nature, NEVERCREW has illustrated their observations on walls and shipping containers in India, United States, and Europe. Concerned with climate change and the future of humanity, pieces like “Black Machine” and “Ablating Machine” depict whales and polar bears in artistic and […]
The Arcane Passion of Carly Janine Mazur’s Dark-Haired Women
Note: Contains nudity. Carly Janine Mazur is a Connecticut-based artist who paints cryptic yet passionate portraits of dark-haired women. Some kind of “offering” is often taking place, whether it’s a human heart in the hands of a cybernetic ghoul, or a fish held aloft in a shamanic exchange. There is a pervading sense of solitude, […]
Mercenaries of the Apocalypse: The Art of Yuri Shwedoff
Moscow-based artist Yuri Shwedoff tells a passionate and imaginative story about survival in the apocalypse. Set in barren wastelands, his melancholic warriors wander alone, armed with medieval weapons and practicing unearthly magic. Children and animals are recurring motifs, used as symbols of sacrifice and loss in the merciless terrain. A dual sense of loneliness and […]
Reimagined Reality: The Colorful Tattoos of Giena Todryk
Belarus tattooer Giena Todryk uses vibrant colors to create surrealist neo-traditional body art. The hues are so bright that they vibrate and radiate from the skin, producing the feeling of trippiness, like we’re on some sort of psychedelic drug. There’s nothing realistic about his animal and nature portraits—they’re clad in beautiful jewel tones punctuated by […]
Foreboding Creature Tattoos are Modern Brothers Grimm
Tortoises, hares, skulls, and crows—these are all characters featured in Parvick Faramarz’s blackwork tattoos. The Moscow-based artist combines intricate dot and bold lines, creating a subtle texture and sense of motion in every tattoo. At times, they appear as if they’re crawling over the skin. Together, they conjure vintage illustrations of folklore; not the type […]