ThriftHorror

Recent Posts

  • Interrupting your silence for an update!
  • Rabbit Season!!
  • Dolphins in Bondage
  • From the ‘Creepy Little Dead Girl’ Files
  • Putti: Creepy as F***

Recent Comments

  • Hannah Theresa Weyland on Just stand still.
  • Brunettepet on Can’t sleep, birdhouse will eat me
  • hotclaws on And another enigma.
  • Brunettepet on Well and truly fired
  • Brunettepet on A beautiful mystery!

Tags

"handicrafts" (tm) 12 Days 2010 12days2011 12days2012 12days2013 12days2014 aminals amorphous blobs angels bad art Bears Best Of biohazard bottles broked candles ceramics children Christmas clowns Country Crafts DIY dolls don't wear that! for the kids furries Halloween Holiday Posts horrors huh? it must be bunnies Just Cool juxtapositions kittens moments My Funny Valentine? Not PC NSFW plates puppies San Antonio shelfpig shell art Weird Religion

Best of Thrift

  • Next To New Consignment
  • Top Drawer Thrift
  • Treasure City Thrift

Blogness

  • Rewind Knits and Crochets
  • Thrift Madness
  • Thrift Store Adventures
  • Thrift Store Horror
  • Yardsaling to Adventure!

Links

  • RSS Feed
  • Thrifthorror on Facebook
  • Thrifthorror on Pinterest
  • ThriftHorror on Twitter

I like ’em strange and murky

So…I’ve been sitting on this one for a while, mostly because I have no idea how to begin. The artist’s intent is clearly inhabiting some rarified level of the atmosphere which we are unlikely to ever see, for which, I think, I am grateful. Of course, there’s the smallest chance that the deepest meaning one can extract from some pieces is “ooh, I have a new copy of Photoshop!” I rather fear that’s where we are now.

7-4-10SvrsNOldMan1

In this particular artist’s defense, at least I can vaguely understand what’s being represented. We are clearly dealing with an old man, or possibly a grossly distorted piece of produce, something from the “spud” family. With most thrift art, the whole “or it may be a potato” is always a possibility, even on a good day, so we just won’t address that. No, we are clearly up against “old man dreaming of the past.” And what a past!

7-4-10SvrsNOldMan6

When I am an old man, I hope I have something better to fill my daydreams with than gross anatomical distortions. The strangely melty woman at the left looks very much like the cover model for Communion. But don’t hold that against her. Or him, he’s lifed a long and active life. I think it might have also involved giant one-celled organisms drifting like zeppelin through a gentle, pervasive mist, toward an apparition of “Our Lady of the Slightly Distended Corgi.” And then there was a rooster in there somewhere. Because, y’know, roosters. Like you do.

7-4-10SvrsNOldMan4

“We bring you…love?”

And this…I’m not sure if it’s a haunting memory or Startling Evidence.

7-4-10SvrsNOldMan7

If we only understood what was going through his ancient, twisted mind, we’d know where the bodies really are.

Savers on North Lamar, Austin

April 13, 2011   TV's Jacob
Uncategorized bad art, huh?

Related Posts

  • Dolphins in Bondage
    Dolphins in Bondage
  • LET THERE BE….LIPS!
    LET THERE BE….LIPS!
  • Cat from Outer Space
    Cat from Outer Space
×

  • Blessed St. Sparkletoes
  • Cute but creepy

2 Responses to “I like ’em strange and murky”

  1. Reply
    Fanbot / 13 Apr 2011 10:19am #

    I think it must be cursed.

    • Reply
      TV's Jacob / 30 Apr 2011 9:47am #

      Just possibly. The picture does look a lot like an image I saw in Friday the 13th, the Series, or maybe “Portrait of Dorien Gray.”

Leave a Reply

Cancel

  • (will not be published)
Copyright © 2013 ThriftHorror - Things From Beyond the Bargain Bin: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, powered by Wordpress
7ads6x98y