In July 1906 National Geographic published their first wildlife photographs - the ones you see here. I have, in the past, stumbled across a number of them on Tumblr, Pinterest and the like. The spookiness always intrigued me, but I never knew about their origins, until yesterday, when I discovered that they were shot by… Continue reading In The Night
Caryn Drexl's artwork is evocative, eerie, beautiful... Self-taught, the talented photographer has been dabbling in photography since childhood.
Created using paints and healing, herbal tea dyes, the art work of Guinevere Von Sneeden has an unforgettable childlike innocence about it on first look, but the longer your study, the more you see.
There's really something for every strange soul you know, over at Lyra Nebula Prints. Personally, I love receiving prints as gifts, and these antique works of beautiful art are affordable and quite irresistible.
Daniel ChorupGeoffrey DevautourHaarvey AardvarkJukka AlasaariLindsay AdlerKavan The KidEmma McEvoy
Churches aren't a regular feature on Wyrd Words & Effigies...(except for when they feature ghosts in the pews) but I simply had to post this astonishing art installation of Lucifer by artist Paul Fryer. The surreal spectacle you see here was mounted in The Holy Trinity Church in London.
Art from Tora Wolff. (My pseudonym.)
When the day comes that I bring a child into this world, some of the first things It'll see when it opens it's eyes, will be a gathering of fantasy creatures from Wood Splitter Lee. You know when you find something I get so excited that you want the rest of the world to see… Continue reading Wood Splitter Lee
This will sound most bizarre (remember which site you're on) but when I look at this selection of work from Dutch artist Aline Eras, I feel as though I have a hair ball stuck in my throat, that keeps trying to make it's way up into my mouth, to wrap itself around my teeth. I've… Continue reading Hair In My Throat
These sculptures aren't for sale, sadly. But you can get prints of them here.
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 