Necromantic – Page 38 – Flowers from the realms of dream and ruin

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The Drawings of Mako

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Preternaturally Beautiful Photography by Jenn Violetta

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Twisted Kingdom: Otherworldly Costume Designs by Katarzyna Konieczka

Katarzyna Konieczka makes the most incredible avant-garde costumes with a dark conceptual bent. Encased in plastic, cage-like, wrapped in wire, and torturously beautiful, her designs evoke impressions of daemonic sci-fi medical fetish wear and insane asylum couture, artifacts from kingdoms of madness.

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Domestic Violence Ad

This is a really powerful minute-long commercial, if you can call it that, for the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

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Vintage Dream Photography by Ellen Rogers

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Beauty in the Slaughter: The Art of James Jean

James Jean is a Los Angeles-based artist and illustrator. His brand of colorful, macabre, and wacky surrealism contains elements from mythology, Asian art, and anatomical illustrations; childhood, sexuality, and transformation are common themes. His style is fluid and graceful, often using soft colors that make the nightmares and scenes of grisly slaughter strangely friendly.

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The Otherworldly and the Liminal: Art by Eric Fortune

Eric Fortune’s hauntingly beautiful, lyrical, photorealistic paintings, featuring statuesque humans or human-like mythical beings, convey a sense of movement, of epic vastness, and of illumination. The figures are often suspended in air, on the brink of falling, in motion, or reaching towards a source of light as towards some deeply powerful spiritual or inner discovery. They are always on some pinnacle; on the verge of redemption, destruction, crossing boundaries, or the threshold of immolating enlightenment.

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Short Film: “Embrio”

Embrio is an experimental short film made entirely by Jean-Sébastien Monzani (story, direction, film, and music), with acting by Stéphanie Schneider.

What draws me to Embrio is its quality of implicit horror, conveyed through the actor’s subtle, ever-changing expressions and the eerie, intense, atmospheric soundtrack. Sans a conventional narrative, Embrio explores the compulsions, fixations, obsessions, and psychological reactions of a young woman, and, though very well-composed, it also has a rawness, depicting naked sensations and emotions with all the vagueness and ambiguity of good psychological horror – all within a clean, bright, well-lit, nearly sterile environment. It draws us deeply, physically, into the experience of the woman, and gets under our skin.

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João Ruas

João Ruas is an amazing artist and illustrator based in São Paulo, Brazil. His work is gorgeous, delicate, with graceful, flowing lines (his rendering of hair is exquisite), soft surrealness, and a dreamy macabre quality; utterly recognizable as his own at a glance.

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“The Book of Soil” by Teagan White

This beautiful and intriguing piece of papercraft is The Book of Soil, an experimental book-/paper-making project from designer and illustrator Teagan White.

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