Ivan the Terrible
...rose to the throne ov Rome
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"Observers of Souls Demise"
inspired by a song from Silent Planet powerful Iridescent album, this time the fantastic "Panopticon" and especially these lyrics from it which sparked much of the imagery of this piece:
"Safe in your silicon shell. A cell in a server: Silent observer"
"The culture is charged, amplified, then polarized. But our nerves are dulled and our souls lobotomized"
"We sleep with pixels in a dream machine but we lose ourselves and retreat to screens"
"Unto us a program is born: Holy Virus, Taker of the Earth."
For me I was trying to encapsulate, like the previous piece "Static", the struggles many of us face with mental health, but in this one I wanted rather an existential or abstract struggle, to link it to the dangers of our always online, always connected, social media, fame, consumerist, etc obsessed world (and I appreciate the logic is selling prints of such a piece). How the every present screen can erode us into a shell of our true self, bound to its glow for our identity and worth.
Links to prints and other socials:
https://linktr.ee/kimded
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quick update
Got a few older, dark and Halloweeny stragglers up on AlienFolklore.net today before continuing on with the boots series. Likely more to come soon as I've pivoted towards autumnal, spooky, horror, and weird art & designs.
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Netsuke of Puppy on Straw Mat Biting String. . Credit line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/59622
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the way hozier titles a song "i, carrion (icarian)" where he sings about the self-destructive idea of sacrificing himself by flying into sun to save his relationship, and compares himself to 'carrion', the decaying flesh of animals, often a word used for roadkill. to then go and write a song called "abstract (psychopomp)" about how holding an animal whilst it dies mirrors the mercy of ending a failing relationship, similar to a 'psychopomp' - a deliverer of death. and we watch as hozier turns from 'icarian' to 'psychopomp' when he realises that prolonging suffering is crueler than just letting love die. i'm both in awe and crying on my bedroom floor.
and the way a carrion crow is also a symbol of death ?? and how 'carrion' sounds like 'carry on' the way icarus kept going ?? and how he sounds envious of his lover's courage in "abstract" ?? how when the sun is gone - "streetlights in the dark blue" - he can no longer blind himself and is forced to look at the corpse of his relationship ?? how to love is to let go ?? how can he keep getting away with this i'm sobbing ??
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"Only the broken can heal"
"The common thread that binds, The truth it does reveal, only the broken can heal." - This line from the fantastic Comrades song "This Ends With Me" struck a chord deep within me when I first heard it a few years ago, and slowly this piece came together, figures, united through a shared brokenness and a shared healing process.
Links to prints and other socials:
https://linktr.ee/kimded
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