This situation (from a dream of mine) is not surprising or terrifying to you. This man is lying on the ground and actually growing into it, all the while carrying on a conversation with you. "In a dream, you can see a man who has a piece of raw meat instead of a head. (His later paintings are brighter and sometimes simpler, and I generally don't find them as evocative his digital manipulations are thematically similar but unfortunately show their age.) It's uncomfortable and intricate, an exceedingly effective body horror and an invitation to linger over the details of the alien landscapes. He has the most remarkable organic greebling-a texture like hands/bones/branches/roots/veins which stretches across faces and buildings indiscriminately, thus uniting organic/inorganic, alive/dead, personal/public. I love this artist and his bewitching nightmarescapes. Art primarily from BeksiĆski's "fantastic realism" period, ~1960s-80s, with a few examples of his later work.
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