Am a bit disappointed that Google "similar image search" wasn't able to find better examples of five-tentacled space aliens. It couldn't even find one! Lots of snack food, though.
Experiment performed by Mirrrroring. Science fiction illustration by Wayne D. Barlowe, found on the internet.
Sculptures by Clark Ashton Smith
Top to bottom: Nameless One, Venusian Swamp Man, Bird of Wisdom
Smith is known mainly as a writer and member of the Lovecraft Circle but his artwork deserves a look. The above images hail from a website devoted to matters C.A.S.
His artwork often recalls Blake but is much more minimal -- usually with one character per sculpture or text. It's unusually restrained for a self-taught or "outsider" artist. What's most intriguing about the sculpture is its patina of age and a certain authentic quality. These look like the kind of impossibly ancient but previously unknown deities that Lovecraft characters were forever digging up or discovering in old shops. All of them have a strong emotional conviction, which is the quality of Lovecraft that continues to appeal long after the science in his stories has gone musty.
1980s William Gibson "video glitch" cover and dump.fm-found datamosh-style headshot; I made the pairing.
Congratulations to Diana Kingsley for this New Yorker write-up of her show at Castelli:
It’s hard to know what Kingsley is up to with this new group of photographs, but she’s obviously having fun. Some of her still-life images look like parodies of Elad Lassry’s, with similarly oddball arrangements of tomatoes, cheese wedges, and melons and balloons on brightly colored backdrops. Roe Etheridge [sic] might have shot the ikebana-style flower arrangement with a partly eaten foil-wrapped candy bar left at its base. But Kingsley’s off on her own wonderfully weird trip with much of this work, including a picture of a forest floor with little stacks of coins among the pine needles. Through Aug. 3.
Of course Kingsley was doing this before Roe Ethridge but it's not unfavorable company.
Some earlier writing on Kingsley:
and here.
