GROTESQUE HALLUCINATION Baldwin’s Mule. |
Taylor Baldwin of Richmond, Virginia, makes elegant, fine-lined pen drawings of mutilated bodies around a blasted and bullet-pocked Jersey barrier, and a dying mule fallen onto its side, laying in a puddle of vomit (or something) and spilling packs and furniture from its back. His delicate hyperrealism makes the grotesque destruction feel hallucinatory.
FROTHY AND GOTHY Jones’s Never Let You Go. |
Christine Jones of Philadelphia offers sugary, hallucinatory videos of disembodied lady heads blowing bubble gum or spitting up chocolate (I think) and licking ice cream cones. She adds zonked-out skull-faced women, balloons, and pearl necklaces for a frothy, gothy, Marilyn Minter-eque confection. She also makes obsessive, folksy pencil drawings stuffed to overflowing with flowers and bows and braids and jeweled crowns. Frilly, lacey designs multiply and kaleidoscope into visionary patterns.
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