Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Canadian Artist's Skill Exemplified In Dark Sculptures

A serpent's delicate skeleton writhes sinously from the hard wood of an axe handle; a human rib cage is squeezed from a vice-wrenched stack of books; simian skulls smile from wooden bases; and dessicated fetuses hold court from bed posts at night. This is the dark world of Canadian wood carving artist Maskull Lasserre...

1 comment:

Sharon Day said...

I had to bookmark that one! Oh my gosh! That is the kind of art I've been looking for forever! I always wanted something creepy and unsettling but not in-your-face, but subtle so that you just get a weird vibe.