Salt Bride is one of the most imaginative art pieces that I've featured here on Wyrd Words & Effigies. Back in 2014 Israeli artist Sigalit Landau submerged a black dress in the Dead Sea where is remained for two months. Below you can see the process of salt crystallization and the eerie yet enchanting end… Continue reading Salt Bride
Today my heart lies with the work of young Spanish photographer Aida Pascual Benito. Looking at her romantic, intriguing imagery provides me with a much needed escape from the busyness of reality.
The website of Brazilian photographer Nadia Maria has quickly become one of my favourite dark art hangouts. Her passion for photography began as a child, when she would photograph her dolls. Her work is a personal journal of feelings and transformations.... The focus of her inspiration is at poetry, and photography is her writing, her… Continue reading 365 Days Of Dark Art : 71 / Nadia Maria
Her only desire was to be as pale and quiet as the first frost gathering on the forgotten pines.
I've been pouring over these images of Victorian ladies with floor length hair for...I don't know how long now. But can you blame me? They're beautiful and mysterious and sad. I don't know why I feel this surge of emotion for a collection of women, of strangers...but I do. I find it morbidly fascinating that… Continue reading The Hair Of The Dead
Illustrator John Stortz and his white husky Wolf take journeys through the western US and capture breathtaking photographs along the way. I'm particularly in love with this one. See many more enchanting images at their Tumblr page.
Very much taken with the work of multi-talented artist Julian Feeld, especially his shocking yet simultaneously beautiful series 'La Forêt,' a series which encourages questioning about the separation between the human (source of artifice) and the natural, the inert and the living.
I'm wading my way through the portfolio of shadow master Frank Vik. With little or no explanations next to his work, it's up to you to make up dark and beautiful stories about their origins.
Bewitched by Vadim Stein's human sculpture photography.
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 