or it feels like im an 8 foot tall monster who just caught a little one breaking into my home trying to steal my treasure and in an attempt to distract me from killing him he starts making a video essay.
dude same. i totally forgot about the face so i was in fullscreen and got jumpscared and at first i kind of liked it? and then when it shown again i felt the worst feeling of dread go throughout my body
Holy shit, that's exactly how I felt about it too. True horror down my spine. Regret watching this before going to sleep (T-T) The only plus side is that nothing else felt anymore scary at least...
Ken Currie and similar artists have always sparked this weird interest in me of how disfigured and distorted a human could feasibly be while remaining alive, whereas a pile of viscera is just nature. I feel like his are a lot more based on real injuries and defects than the others, I like all of them still though for different reasons
I've never been able to put that feeling into words, but you nailed it. Something seems alive, but not quite right. Art like theirs reminds me of dementia, specifically art I've seen created by people throughout the progression of the disease. Like someone kind of forgot how faces were supposed to look so they end up jumbled together and disfigured. It makes me feel that same way that (very long) album "Everywhere at the End of Time" by The Caretaker, made me feel. The terror associated with forgetting, feeling lost, feeling confused and scared, feeling utterly helpless but trying so hard to find help.
The cut to Ken Currie’s artwork was the best part of this whole video. I love how he said that he did not want to talk about Ken Currie, but gave us enough pictures to get a good feel of what he did. My god, Ken Currie is one of the best artists out there.
That Ken Currie painting of the face used to be in an art gallery in Aberdeen, Scotland. I remember seeing it in the room and not wanting to go near it. You would walk around looking at the other exhibits with this face just staring at you in the corner. When I did eventually go up to it, I remember just having this instinctual urge to back away. Like it was gonna come off the canvas and eat me. I haven’t had that feeling from another painting ever
Dude you are genuinely my favorite video essayist. The balance between a subject you are actually passionate about and humor is just insane please never stop creating things
When you mentioned Julia Soboleva and the possible connection between her identity and her art, I almost screamed. My home land is a small island, it’s been occupied by different governments over the years, what’s dreadful is that no matter which government takes over, islanders are always forced to show their allegiance to some country they never set their feet on, or forced into political stances just because of some ancestors lived in a country 200 years ago. because of the island’s natural exclusion, we developed a weird social structure that no matter who took over the place, the commoners’ (old ones or newly immigrated ones) identity would always inevitably merge with preexisting cultures and start to view themselves as “the people of the island” instead of “someone from that country”, but the moment we connected to that identity, we suddenly became a part of the problem, “the island” is not a country, what arrogant fools we are to abandon our “real mother country”? We became a stranger to our land, we are the traitors to our bloodline, we are pests to the political structures. Everything that felt like home melts into a silent scream of horror, you realize your face, your food, your language, everything, all broke into millions of eyes, observing you, almost sneering at your attempts to build a home on this broken land drenched in blood, and who you are is an abominable Frankenstein pieced up brutally by lies created to serve different foreign lands. Everything feels so familiar and cozy, yet there’s always an underlying uneasiness, those gnawing gazes tear through your skin, as if judging you, for intruding your own room. You don’t understand why? What did you do wrong? Why were you punished? Why is everyone angry? And I know I’m projecting hard, but that’s how her arts remind me of, and you put it into words so perfectly, “a child scribbling over a bad memory.” Btw it’s so great to see someone to be able to approach art in such a welcoming fashion, love how you put your thoughts and emotions into the video as if you are chatting with the audience! Look forward to seeing more!
@trevorphilips4155 Ah, I don’t share my data but here’s some context if that helps. I’m from Taiwan, we have been ruled by one Japanese government and three different Chinese governments in history. My grandma lived under the Japanese empire’s colonization, she speaks Japanese and Taiwanese, during her time, people had access to modernized schools, but some big tribes were persecuted, and used for biochemical weapons test grounds. By the time her daughter, my mother was in school, the ROC government from China lost their civil war and fled to the island, they viewed us as “descendants of China, but spies for Japan” and started the reign of white terror, she remembered her classmates disappeared from the crime of “treason”, the said classmate were 12-18. Currently, we are in a state of ambiguity, ROC lost a lot of power after multiple incidents of violence with the Taiwanese. One of the very first examples is the “Beautiful Island incident”. It happened on 12/10 in 1979, International Human Rights Day, when young Taiwanese demanded freedom and rights, they were thrown in prison, faced the death penalty, or killed on the spot. A lot of international media today say Taiwan is a second China, which is true when it comes to political structures in governance, but it’s also silencing our identity as Taiwanese as what always happens in the course of history. Taiwanese were barbarians to the Min kingdom, pirates of Min to the Chin kingdom, later Chinese laborers to Japan, and Japanified traitors to the ROC. Most of our people’s bloodline roughly traced back around 300-150 years ago, and are often a mixture of Chin Han people and islands’ Indigenous people, not the recent immigrants from ROC 60 years ago, although as I previously said in the first comment, Taiwan is a strange place where people’s identities tend to melt into “Taiwanese”, even though this “country” technically never existed. Ever since Japan’s reign, which was the first power that declared itself as the government of the whole island, the Taiwanese demanded sovereignty but were rarely heard. It’s the same with ROC a few years ago. Now, we are closer than ever to finally gaining our true sovereignty, it’s the 3rd time someone from Taiwan originated political party has been elected as president, however, we still have no place in the UN, no official recognition from any country with power, no proper defense from the threat of “the west side”. We are getting there. But if we lose again, we already know how it will go from the previous experience. Hope this helps, from a fellow artist to another haha.
@@joshuabushman7 it's like a compulsion. Like, I feel wrong if I can't write or draw for whatever reason, like an itch that has to be scratched or I'll go crazy. I have so many full notebooks, some of it repetitive but I guess I would say that a lot of it is anxiety based.
I saw a Ken Currie piece while I was at the Edinburgh portrait gallery some time back, it was the one with the three surgeons/doctors. I don’t really know much about him but that painting was extremely striking, I really loved the spectral quality the figures had.
@@RonaldMcDonald-nf9jj Why don't we just call that kenopsia then? I think it fits more the idea than liminal. And the word's etymology is meaningful. Unlike liminal which sounds like a brand now.
the silent hill 2 song you played at the ken currie section ["blank fairy" , i believe] gives me the same kind of creeping dread that a lot of these paintings do.. it feels so oppressive and inescapable in its terror . one of my favorite horror game tracks . good choice.!
idk if i should thank you for showing me Ken Currie's art or thow hands lol CW: unhinged yapping ahead cuz I can't say shit quickly in all seriousness though, when saw first piece, my entire body (or like my whole being or whatever) reacted in a way that I initially wasn't able to describe. It wasn't quite fear or dread, but maybe something similar? Something right before those two feelings? I wasn't sure right away what to call it, but I think I've figured it out. As more of his works were shown, i began to subconsciously ask "what is that?" "is it even human?" "is it even alive?" "what does it want?" "why is it looking at me like that?" "is it looking at me?" and so on. Of course, I don't yet have answers to any of these questions, but the one thing I was certain of is that whatever or whoever I'm looking at, it doesn't feel like something that was born or created or anything like that. I can't imagine that any being with the power to create would make this, would think to make this, would be able to make this... thing. It did not come from anywhere, it had no beginning and it has no end. It simply is. It came from nothing, it is nothing, but it will not return to nothing. It will remain, silently, for an eternity, in some boundary between existence and nothingness. As i write this, I'm thinking they may serve as a warning of some kind, though they could just as easily be a sign of the end, like the pale horse from the bible (i know there are others but that one is the best example of what im talking about in my opinion so there) , telling us we can do naught but watch and wait, silently, just as they do. It's like the idea of lovecraftian horror taken to its fullest extent. It's something that should be benign because it does literally nothing but exist, and yet the mere knowledge of its existence drives ppl crazy. All that being said, I think I've narrowed down what it is I felt when looking at these pieces: "this shouldn't exist." every single part of me had an immediate and intense aversion to the paintings, yet they trapped me. It felt like a death sentence to look at them, but it felt just as bad, if not worse, to look away. Strangely enough, once all the other pieces went away and it was just the first one on the screen, I felt this feeling even more strongly than I did the first time it was on screen, as though it was easier to digest the less... vaguely human they looked? I experienced the same peak in this emotion when the one with a bunch of people (?) standing around one person (??) and staring (???) up at something (probably) was put on the screen. I dunno if that makes any sense, but i guess I just really didn't like the ones with faces (but like in a good way cuz thats supposed to happen). I guess the best way I can summarize the feeling is by asking you this question: Do you remember a game called They Breathe? Because Ken Currie's works give me the same feeling that I felt when seeing that game for the first time. My reaction would probably be pretty different now, mostly cause I was damn near half as old as I am now when I first saw it, but I remember the feeling that game gave me very well (not sure why, maybe cuz it was one of the few times I felt like that or smth), and I'm certain Currie's works did the same thing. Sorry for my TED talk and thank you for coming to my TED talk now go read comments from other ppl who are smarter and cooler and sexier and more concise than me and have a good day and maybe tell Ken Currie you're sorry he has to have them scary ass ideas for art in his head cuz I think I would cry if any of these things were in my brain ok bye for real this time (cue EARFQUAKE intro)
I could not look at the Ken Currie works. Had to look away from the screen. (But I also had to peek at each one because they’re really incredible.) I am so disturbed fantastic video thank you
yeah that could've used at least some kind of heads up. i am not so much scared of body horror as much as i am scared of being plunged into it from an emotional height
Just wanna shout out a small german artist I incidentally know personally by the name of Benjamin Hummitzsch. He's a painter, but most of his work is digitalized and while not nearly as creepy or body horrily (lol) as the examples in your video, I feel if you enjoy this type of art his works are probably up your alley too. It's all very texturous, similar to the kinds of things you see under a microscope, but mapped on human shapes or other things to create a very eery style. I lack the words to describe it better, but I recommend to google his name. My favourite is a piece called "Tesobjekt 341". It's a humanoid figure curled up, but the skin is a deep blue and has potruding outgrowths. like the figure has been crystallized. That captures what I feel when I look at his art, it's unknown and "other" but very much non threatening, because all his subjects look so vulnerable, as if they never asked to even be painted and looked at.
Ken Currie for me has always been a perspective of the human horrors-like what we are capable of and who we can be. The pieces have always sparked a thought process that can only be described as primal violence lol. A very bizarre feeling lmao. But this is why art is so powerful! And very cooool video
you just scarred my mental health with that ken currie jumpscare, like i know its not gonna be good by how you explain the intermission.but holy crap how i feel so disturbed by it,i can see myself not wanting to go without a light on night time in the near future, have i ever saw this artist in my recomendations wherever it is i would immediately click on the "dont reccomend channels" things i cannot handle it, dont get me wrong his art is a master piece, but lord i would never want to saw him on my recomendation, i am too traumatized. anyway great video you make me aware of some artist who makes beautifull body horror art, i can atleast try to study the gore since i like drawing them on my freetime :3
Wayne Barlowe shoutout let's gooooo! I have several of his artbooks and his novels, utterly fantastic work, I easily get lost in his hellscapes and figures. The first one you showed, of the demon holding the brick, is the main character in his books, and he's a G. Barlowe has a new artbook in the works as well, focusing on the native creatures of hell, so keep an eye out for that!
Pleasant intermission by Alariko. Displaying some of the very good sides of being alive in this world. Didn't know of the other artists so thank you for introducing. Mucho interesting.
surprised by no phil hale mention!! hes my absolute favorite I feel like these painters are all pretty cool in making something interesting, but they don't feel like full scenes or worlds being represented sometimes. Its like a snippet of an idea every time, kind of a 'Ooooh, look at THIS spooky thing'. every one of the paintings from suguru tanaka, julia soboleva, agostino arrivabene have cool ideas and great artistic execution, but a lot of them are just a floating subject in the middle of the canvas. maybe this is just a contemporary art thing- canvases are smaller now, theres a million artists out there, you need to portray an idea quickly and to the point. Quickness and clarity are great things in some art forms like tattoos, animation, etc. But its not something I really look for in fine art. they're floating little islands of ideas with nothing around them. feels like concept art for a video game. ken currie was probably my favorite artist I'd never heard of before here, he still suffers from single subject in a void disease but his ideas are interesting and his execution is cool. also dragan bibin and zdzisław beksiński are naff as hell thanks for the cool video :)
"rip off my skin" (positive) is such a delightful treat in art, a personal favorite feeling!! Thank you, I loved this video. It made me want to replay Kitty Horrorshow's ANATOMY (and also rip my skin off
Saw Three Oncologists by Ken Currie in Edinburgh and yeah that painting has so much presence. I might go see it again tomorrow, thanks for reminding me.
I love how you mix humor in with creepy artworks, like talking about over the hedge while i look at some disturbingly beautiful art. It really speaks to me, i enjoy this content 😫⁉️
Thanks for spreading the word about Agostino Arrivabene! I found out about him from the cover art of a metal record from I, Voidhanger records and fell in love with his style. Unironically extreme metal album art is a great way to discover underrated contemporary artists
Didnt think i would be as deeply uncomfortable, curious, and in as much awe as when i was watching phil tippet's stop motion animated experimental horror film mad god ever again or by anything else, but i am the fool today and we were not ready for this
at 10:50 i recognized the music used in the video and its such a good choice, goes perfectly with these artists, thx for introducing me to Ken Currie's work in particular whew
10:55 Wording it like a “divine/religious parasitic growth” is actually cold af imo. That is, judging by the vague context about the artist’s (bloody) religious childhood, and combined with common negative religious experiences ppl may experience 11:30 I spoke too soon 💀
You know, there are moments in my RUclips trawls that leave a profound impact on me, that shock me when I first see it, but pull me back again and again to shock me and give me the rush I felt when I first saw it. There always are both audio and visual components - a stunning visual put to the only piece of music that would do it justice. The abrupt transition into Ken Currie was one of those moments for me. The whole video was great, but I'll be coming back to this video for years to come just to experience that bone chilling transition over and over. Well done!
this is incorrect. motherfuckers out here just picking words they like the sound of and changing what they mean. stop it. get some help. the word means threshold. liminality pertains to being between things, or moving through things. transition. a waiting room is a liminal space. an elevator is a liminal space. twilight is liminal between day and night. a hotel room on a trip. the hotel room is not the destination, the hotel room is a space between home and the destination. a hallway.
@@hosatus2433 what I like about liminal spaces is that they dont have one clear definition, a liminal space is more something which everyone has a different connection to. So for some ppl its just empty nostalgic places, but other people see them as scary so if they wanna add a monster to add to the way they view liminal spaces then thats cool lol (for me I get that feeling with trevor henderson’s drawings). It does gets bad though when something like that gets into the general idea of a liminal space, so like every liminal space suddenly needs a Monster Idk correct me if Im wrong
This got recommended to me and I clicked IMMEDIATELY. LOVE YOUR VIBE AND LOVE THE WAY YOU PRESENT THESE ARTISTS and discuss their …everything. Your passion and vibe is fantastic. I hope to GOD you make more videos about artists that are provoking like this. ENCORE!!!!!
being so serious right now but I have watched this video over and over because of the “soundtrack”, the commentary, AND THE KEN CURRIE SECTION COMING OUT OF NOWHERE?? this video scratches some sort of itch in my soul
I've never looked into any kind of art, so when this video popped up on my recommendation it looked cool and I loved it. I never comment, but oh my god when I heard the Ken Currie disclaimer I was like "ahhh how bad could it be" and I genuinely had to look away from the screen,and when I heard you say "I feel like if I look at it for too long something bad will happen" it made my heard race so fast because you literally said exactly what I was thinking. Scared the life out of me. I love art now.
I was going to leave a comment about how much i agree with your Bibin chapter but I was completely GAGGED by the Bradd Pitt factoid at the end. and the actual ending. an amazing ending honestly youre a cinema genius
This was really interesting, im in art school in france and my teachers show us a lot of artists that could inspire us or be studied or interest us to push us to find our path, and as i have a crave for something more of the type of what you discussed they don't give me a lot. I loved that, i loved that presentation more than you know thank you. And also you're fucking fun gotta stay around to see what you do next
Bro I saw some of these on Pinterest and was wondering who made it, so thanks so much for talking about them and giving their full name and showing their style, I love how goofy you act in these, it's honestly great for inspiration! Keep it up!
I thoroughly enjoyed this please make more, i love the way you explain how you feel about these paintings. i love how many "creepy" paintings in way resonate with us which imo is comforting bit also disturbing.
Dogs being alert to something you can't sense is forever a nightmare trigger for me after staying at my cousins extremely haunted home in SC. Once you have a 100 lb female Bull Terrier mix crawl up on top of you and cover your neck with her head, protecting you like she would a puppy from an imminent predator, growling at an empty doorway in a house you just checked was empty, only to have your cousin, his wife, and his sister all confirm their own experiences of visually seeing shit...yeah I went from hard skeptic to a very open mind in the course of 12 hours.
I feel a strange kind of comfort while watching art from this 9:37 artist. I have been suffering from Depression and anxiety for so long that i have developed derealization and dissociation. It's a scary experience. Almost feels like I'm drowning in a gooey liquid. I can feel my body too much to the point that i feel nothing at all. I hate how my skin feels, how i have to breathe, how i have to eat, how i must walk , how i must live to keep it moving. My body feels alien . It doesn't feel mine. I just want to peel everything off and set my soul free. And that is why , the art mentioned from here 9:37 feels so strangely comforting. As if I'm finally being heard. As if someone could finally see my pain.
I was watching this in class thanks for jumpscaring me with Ken Currie's art Anyways I love how you went into Agostino's art, never heard of him but the art and your views on it really got ton me in a cool and unnerving way
Saw that first Ken Currie painting in a museum in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was the first painting in the room I was immediately drawn to. I don't know what it was, but there was something about it that had me just wanting to stare. At the same time, I didn't want to be near it, and I absolutely did not want to be in the room alone with it. It's a really weird medium between incredible/fascinating and digging. It feels like the subject is alive, and is fully concious of your presence. Really interesting painting. It's honestly one of the paintings that's stuck with me most out of the many that I've seen in different museums all over the world.
She is no longer alive (rip queen), but if you haven't, I think you should really check out Louise Bourgeois-- she seems right up your alley. I've written two academic papers about her so far, analyzing how she distorts the human form and turns it into something unsightly and grotesque, but in a subtle way. It doesn't read as a human body until you look at it for a little too long. One of her most stand-out works is based on a cannibalistic fantasy she's had since she was a child of her, her mother, and her sisters attacking and eating her abusive father. Another iconic piece is a representation of her mother through the form of distorted spiders. She's so fucked up, and I LOVE her work
very much agree on the ken currie part I am, absolutely fascinated by his paintings but I absolutely can't look them up after dark or when I'm alone,, also thanks for the artist recommendations very hot very sexy
Thank you! I'm kind of just floating along as I discover which artists I like and I've added most of who you shined a light on to my list of "who to look into" which is always great. You made a nervous newbie feel welcome, no gatekeeping, no bad vibes. I like how you basically told any would be critics to just keep it to themselves, I also have to say that I truly appreciated the texts you posted regarding religious trauma - I read each one.
Agostino Arrivabene’s work reminds be of the book (and movie ig) ‘Annihilation’ by Jeff Vandermeer. That blend between human and divine and the cosmic, creepy-but-not-quite aura of the artwork is the exact feeling I had when reading the book.
I was actually going to mention that exact thing because a critic said the same thing. But once I saw the movie I was like eh I won’t mention it. But I need to actually read it it sounds like. I love weird sci-fi stuff
8:00 hii small correction!! Julia said she doesn't feel a sense of CULTURAL identity this video introduced me to her art i did an art assignment about her :)) it's my 4th time watching this lmao keep up the silly stuff
i've never felt so seen. + also love how I can almost categorize this lil vid-essay as a piece of art 4 me bc lowk the room and you is giving liminal ahhh space and backrooms. so meta!
Maybe it's because of my Autism that gives me a poor sense of danger, maybe it's the fact that I grew up on memes and learned how to make anything into a joke, or maybe it's the fact that I've seen enough horror both real and fictional, but I can't say that any of these disturbed me. They actually facinated me and inspire me to seek out similar content. Also I can't unsee this dude dabbing at 11:22
I recently played a horror game called Fear and Hunger: Termina (a sequel to a game called fear and hunger) and in that game there's a lot of body horror in the enemies and stuff (though not as scary as the things seen in this video) its a very interesting game because mechanically wise it kind of sucks and it doesn't seem like its the type of game that can really be "scary" because of the way its designed, but i think it makes up for it by the entire ambience and the design of some of the enemies. Basic plot goes something along the lines of 14 people get on a train all for wildly different reasons , the train for some reason completely stops at a small town called Prehevil where before waking up every character has a dream explaining a "Festival of Termina" and are told to kill each other and go to the tower in the center of the city. I thought that since its a shitty RPGMaker game it couldn't possibly be scary but I think the fear is portrayed through many other means than simply scary stuff happens, the game is quite brutal and challenging so much that it puts many people off but the challenge adds to the fear so much, an enemy seemingly coming out of a place that was completely locked beforehand when you haven't gotten a save in over an hour is terrifying, especially when you combine that with the weird ass design they usually have. Not to mention whenever youre outside theres more or less a constant fog over the entire map which just adds to the eeriness. The sound design as well is absolutely perfect, it's just perfectly eerie yet can go unbelievably hard when it wants to. And then back to the original point of the art (bit of a tangent there haha) it is absolutely terrifying especially when put into the context of the world, shit is weird, the things morphs around, I mean there's literally an enemy which is A GUY F*CKING A HORSE MORPHED TOGETHER INTO WEIRD MASS CALLED THE "Centaur" and that's just a fairly minor enemy, I haven't even talked about some of the bosses. It's an uninviting brutal game which adds to the fear, it's stupid at times, it makes you second guess every decision you make, you aren't encouraged to fight enemies which adds to the fear of them as well, the game limits you by your own fear. Well if you're all the way down here thanks for listening to my rant about a thing mostly unrelated to the original video, I'd intended for it to be more concise and mostly about the art (I would've talked more about it but spoilers) but I got carried away so sorry about that, hope the fear aspect is close enough for this to not seem like a completely random rant.
My interest in fear and hunger stopped when I looked up a playthrough and the first thing that popped up was a ra*e speedrun (censoring so Yt won’t zoink my comment)
Arrivabene's work definitely feels familiar to me with religious trauma. similar to what you mentioned in your note on screen, religious trauma doesn't always mean "i hate church because it hurt me and i'll never go near church again", it can be very love/hate. while i've gotten more comfortable in my own connection with god, i'm reminded that i essentially turned my back on a community that knew me since birth because of my queerness. that's a family i cannot rejoin, even if i wanted to. it feels lonely.
What’s the song at 10:16? Good video btw ❤ I love finding all the artists that push the line on how disturbing they can make their works. I remember back during my contemporary art class that our professor showed us these paintings by a German artist whose name escapes me right ( it the one with ruins of a church in the middle of a forest) but we kept looking at his paintings most of my class didn’t care nor bother to look from their computer screens while I was completely infatuated by his art and I remember so vividly that I wanted to more art like this. This eerie unknown of the world inside the painting.
i found dragan bibin's artwork about a year ago after randomly scrolling google images for about an hour, and i gasped when i heard his name lol. it was so obscure and i couldn't find a lot about his work so i assumed he was an unknown artist. i spent about 2 hours going through his work, it's so interesting.
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this camera angle makes me feel like a 8 foot tall monster that broke into your home and forced you to make a video essay
I love this idea so I will deem it canon in my own little world c:
or it feels like im an 8 foot tall monster who just caught a little one breaking into my home trying to steal my treasure and in an attempt to distract me from killing him he starts making a video essay.
Canon
I have a 8 foot tall analog horror type monster who can break into your house and infect your computer.
Makes me feel like I’m watching him through a security camera in solitary confinement.
That ken currie after the intermission is absolutely diabolical
that painting is in my home town! i visited it recently and it looks a bit less creepy in person
I couldnt look away but i didnt want to look at it
I shat my pants when it happened 😭
@@Archie-o2c Right, i planned to skip it but it just draws you in
i love Currie's stuff i really do but naaaah that was some sorta crime xD
the ken Currie face he opened with horrified me to the point that i didnt feel safe looking away from it but i also hated looking at it
dude same. i totally forgot about the face so i was in fullscreen and got jumpscared and at first i kind of liked it? and then when it shown again i felt the worst feeling of dread go throughout my body
jumpscared the hell out of me. 😭MY GOODNESS HE JUMPSCARED ME AGAIN WHEN THE MUSIC STOPPED
Dont ever want to see that face again, but at the same time Im deeply interested in it
Holy shit, that's exactly how I felt about it too. True horror down my spine. Regret watching this before going to sleep (T-T) The only plus side is that nothing else felt anymore scary at least...
Am I the only one that wanted to give the face……. A big ole kiiiiss????
Ken Currie and similar artists have always sparked this weird interest in me of how disfigured and distorted a human could feasibly be while remaining alive, whereas a pile of viscera is just nature. I feel like his are a lot more based on real injuries and defects than the others, I like all of them still though for different reasons
That makes sense coming from you
one of my favorite contemporary horror artists commenting on a video about contemporary horror art!! very cool 👍
I've never been able to put that feeling into words, but you nailed it. Something seems alive, but not quite right. Art like theirs reminds me of dementia, specifically art I've seen created by people throughout the progression of the disease. Like someone kind of forgot how faces were supposed to look so they end up jumbled together and disfigured. It makes me feel that same way that (very long) album "Everywhere at the End of Time" by The Caretaker, made me feel. The terror associated with forgetting, feeling lost, feeling confused and scared, feeling utterly helpless but trying so hard to find help.
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The cut to Ken Currie’s artwork was the best part of this whole video. I love how he said that he did not want to talk about Ken Currie, but gave us enough pictures to get a good feel of what he did. My god, Ken Currie is one of the best artists out there.
Yeh a genuine genius
That Ken Currie painting of the face used to be in an art gallery in Aberdeen, Scotland. I remember seeing it in the room and not wanting to go near it. You would walk around looking at the other exhibits with this face just staring at you in the corner. When I did eventually go up to it, I remember just having this instinctual urge to back away. Like it was gonna come off the canvas and eat me. I haven’t had that feeling from another painting ever
I believe it’s still there!!
top ten endings in cinema
"oo uhh"
Was going to upvote but 666 must not be broken
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That art piece with the dog creeps me the fuck out
Dude you are genuinely my favorite video essayist. The balance between a subject you are actually passionate about and humor is just insane please never stop creating things
This is the first vid I’m seeing and I’m so down for the humor. I don’t watch a ton of video essays anymore but this one had my full attention.
When you mentioned Julia Soboleva and the possible connection between her identity and her art, I almost screamed.
My home land is a small island, it’s been occupied by different governments over the years, what’s dreadful is that no matter which government takes over, islanders are always forced to show their allegiance to some country they never set their feet on, or forced into political stances just because of some ancestors lived in a country 200 years ago.
because of the island’s natural exclusion, we developed a weird social structure that no matter who took over the place, the commoners’ (old ones or newly immigrated ones) identity would always inevitably merge with preexisting cultures and start to view themselves as “the people of the island” instead of “someone from that country”, but the moment we connected to that identity, we suddenly became a part of the problem, “the island” is not a country, what arrogant fools we are to abandon our “real mother country”? We became a stranger to our land, we are the traitors to our bloodline, we are pests to the political structures. Everything that felt like home melts into a silent scream of horror, you realize your face, your food, your language, everything, all broke into millions of eyes, observing you, almost sneering at your attempts to build a home on this broken land drenched in blood, and who you are is an abominable Frankenstein pieced up brutally by lies created to serve different foreign lands.
Everything feels so familiar and cozy, yet there’s always an underlying uneasiness, those gnawing gazes tear through your skin, as if judging you, for intruding your own room. You don’t understand why? What did you do wrong? Why were you punished? Why is everyone angry?
And I know I’m projecting hard, but that’s how her arts remind me of, and you put it into words so perfectly, “a child scribbling over a bad memory.”
Btw it’s so great to see someone to be able to approach art in such a welcoming fashion, love how you put your thoughts and emotions into the video as if you are chatting with the audience! Look forward to seeing more!
I deeply appreciate this comment. Like a lot. Thank you
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you are doing well. Where do u live?
where the fak do you live
@trevorphilips4155 Ah, I don’t share my data but here’s some context if that helps.
I’m from Taiwan, we have been ruled by one Japanese government and three different Chinese governments in history.
My grandma lived under the Japanese empire’s colonization, she speaks Japanese and Taiwanese, during her time, people had access to modernized schools, but some big tribes were persecuted, and used for biochemical weapons test grounds.
By the time her daughter, my mother was in school, the ROC government from China lost their civil war and fled to the island, they viewed us as “descendants of China, but spies for Japan” and started the reign of white terror, she remembered her classmates disappeared from the crime of “treason”, the said classmate were 12-18.
Currently, we are in a state of ambiguity, ROC lost a lot of power after multiple incidents of violence with the Taiwanese. One of the very first examples is the “Beautiful Island incident”. It happened on 12/10 in 1979, International Human Rights Day, when young Taiwanese demanded freedom and rights, they were thrown in prison, faced the death penalty, or killed on the spot.
A lot of international media today say Taiwan is a second China, which is true when it comes to political structures in governance, but it’s also silencing our identity as Taiwanese as what always happens in the course of history. Taiwanese were barbarians to the Min kingdom, pirates of Min to the Chin kingdom, later Chinese laborers to Japan, and Japanified traitors to the ROC.
Most of our people’s bloodline roughly traced back around 300-150 years ago, and are often a mixture of Chin Han people and islands’ Indigenous people, not the recent immigrants from ROC 60 years ago, although as I previously said in the first comment, Taiwan is a strange place where people’s identities tend to melt into “Taiwanese”, even though this “country” technically never existed. Ever since Japan’s reign, which was the first power that declared itself as the government of the whole island, the Taiwanese demanded sovereignty but were rarely heard. It’s the same with ROC a few years ago.
Now, we are closer than ever to finally gaining our true sovereignty, it’s the 3rd time someone from Taiwan originated political party has been elected as president, however, we still have no place in the UN, no official recognition from any country with power, no proper defense from the threat of “the west side”.
We are getting there. But if we lose again, we already know how it will go from the previous experience.
Hope this helps, from a fellow artist to another haha.
@@joshuabushman7 what is the song at 1:40, thxx it has such a creepy vibe
I have hypergraphia! I was diagnosed a couple years ago. The obsession goes deep and can be very overwhelming.
Oh that’s actually really interesting. Is it kinda just an outlet for anxiety?
@@joshuabushman7 it's like a compulsion. Like, I feel wrong if I can't write or draw for whatever reason, like an itch that has to be scratched or I'll go crazy. I have so many full notebooks, some of it repetitive but I guess I would say that a lot of it is anxiety based.
I saw a Ken Currie piece while I was at the Edinburgh portrait gallery some time back, it was the one with the three surgeons/doctors. I don’t really know much about him but that painting was extremely striking, I really loved the spectral quality the figures had.
SAME SAME SAME
3:04 Yes!!! Omg that goofy ahh liminal space and backrooms policing annoys me so much. It's just so goofy
Thank you, it literally all started cause someone saw an empty room and thought it looked cool, it’s not that serious lol
yeah liminal spaces are literally just kenopsia + minimalism.
@@RonaldMcDonald-nf9jj had to look up that word in complete honesty. I’m stealing that word now. Thank you
@@RonaldMcDonald-nf9jj Why don't we just call that kenopsia then? I think it fits more the idea than liminal. And the word's etymology is meaningful. Unlike liminal which sounds like a brand now.
@@mutably what were they called before they got that name? i swear they were around longer than that name was.
My mom won't stop hanging these up in her kitchen
my mom wont stop telling me to clean the kitchen
Slay
I'm the mom btw
I’m the kitchen
Best mom ever
3:17 you had me laughing my ass off, that should not have been that funny holy shit
you and me both like FUCK
Bro i litteraly burt out laughing 😂
right? it was too stupidly funny
the silent hill 2 song you played at the ken currie section ["blank fairy" , i believe] gives me the same kind of creeping dread that a lot of these paintings do.. it feels so oppressive and inescapable in its terror . one of my favorite horror game tracks . good choice.!
Akira Yamaoka can be counted among these artists for sure
Neat, a video to eat to.
Oh... the art is... huh.
I'm still gunna eat tho.
I got my poopcotn
typo but to funny to fix
@@randompandemonium4823period queen!
@@randompandemonium4823 POOPCOTTON??
Gross
"when the second tower fell.." HELP ME
idk if i should thank you for showing me Ken Currie's art or thow hands lol
CW: unhinged yapping ahead cuz I can't say shit quickly
in all seriousness though, when saw first piece, my entire body (or like my whole being or whatever) reacted in a way that I initially wasn't able to describe. It wasn't quite fear or dread, but maybe something similar? Something right before those two feelings? I wasn't sure right away what to call it, but I think I've figured it out.
As more of his works were shown, i began to subconsciously ask "what is that?" "is it even human?" "is it even alive?" "what does it want?" "why is it looking at me like that?" "is it looking at me?" and so on. Of course, I don't yet have answers to any of these questions, but the one thing I was certain of is that whatever or whoever I'm looking at, it doesn't feel like something that was born or created or anything like that. I can't imagine that any being with the power to create would make this, would think to make this, would be able to make this... thing. It did not come from anywhere, it had no beginning and it has no end. It simply is. It came from nothing, it is nothing, but it will not return to nothing. It will remain, silently, for an eternity, in some boundary between existence and nothingness.
As i write this, I'm thinking they may serve as a warning of some kind, though they could just as easily be a sign of the end, like the pale horse from the bible (i know there are others but that one is the best example of what im talking about in my opinion so there) , telling us we can do naught but watch and wait, silently, just as they do. It's like the idea of lovecraftian horror taken to its fullest extent. It's something that should be benign because it does literally nothing but exist, and yet the mere knowledge of its existence drives ppl crazy.
All that being said, I think I've narrowed down what it is I felt when looking at these pieces: "this shouldn't exist." every single part of me had an immediate and intense aversion to the paintings, yet they trapped me. It felt like a death sentence to look at them, but it felt just as bad, if not worse, to look away. Strangely enough, once all the other pieces went away and it was just the first one on the screen, I felt this feeling even more strongly than I did the first time it was on screen, as though it was easier to digest the less... vaguely human they looked? I experienced the same peak in this emotion when the one with a bunch of people (?) standing around one person (??) and staring (???) up at something (probably) was put on the screen. I dunno if that makes any sense, but i guess I just really didn't like the ones with faces (but like in a good way cuz thats supposed to happen).
I guess the best way I can summarize the feeling is by asking you this question: Do you remember a game called They Breathe? Because Ken Currie's works give me the same feeling that I felt when seeing that game for the first time. My reaction would probably be pretty different now, mostly cause I was damn near half as old as I am now when I first saw it, but I remember the feeling that game gave me very well (not sure why, maybe cuz it was one of the few times I felt like that or smth), and I'm certain Currie's works did the same thing.
Sorry for my TED talk and thank you for coming to my TED talk now go read comments from other ppl who are smarter and cooler and sexier and more concise than me and have a good day and maybe tell Ken Currie you're sorry he has to have them scary ass ideas for art in his head cuz I think I would cry if any of these things were in my brain ok bye for real this time (cue EARFQUAKE intro)
Damn bro you should be writing your own video essay lmfao
I could not look at the Ken Currie works. Had to look away from the screen. (But I also had to peek at each one because they’re really incredible.) I am so disturbed fantastic video thank you
5:35 youre so mean for that jesus christ
i knew it was coming but it still scared the living sh*t out fo me
yeah that could've used at least some kind of heads up. i am not so much scared of body horror as much as i am scared of being plunged into it from an emotional height
i was just laughing at the cleansing water sounds as they intensified in volume, it made me jump lmao
Scared the shir out kf me
Thanks for the warning 😅
Just wanna shout out a small german artist I incidentally know personally by the name of Benjamin Hummitzsch. He's a painter, but most of his work is digitalized and while not nearly as creepy or body horrily (lol) as the examples in your video, I feel if you enjoy this type of art his works are probably up your alley too. It's all very texturous, similar to the kinds of things you see under a microscope, but mapped on human shapes or other things to create a very eery style. I lack the words to describe it better, but I recommend to google his name. My favourite is a piece called "Tesobjekt 341". It's a humanoid figure curled up, but the skin is a deep blue and has potruding outgrowths. like the figure has been crystallized. That captures what I feel when I look at his art, it's unknown and "other" but very much non threatening, because all his subjects look so vulnerable, as if they never asked to even be painted and looked at.
8:25, “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” -Picasso
7:14 great now Kathe Kollwitz is going to show up in my bathroom mirror
Ken Currie for me has always been a perspective of the human horrors-like what we are capable of and who we can be. The pieces have always sparked a thought process that can only be described as primal violence lol. A very bizarre feeling lmao. But this is why art is so powerful! And very cooool video
3:49 that's a fanart of Bloodborne's Winter Lantern. Really cool.
you just scarred my mental health with that ken currie jumpscare, like i know its not gonna be good by how you explain the intermission.but holy crap how i feel so disturbed by it,i can see myself not wanting to go without a light on night time in the near future, have i ever saw this artist in my recomendations wherever it is i would immediately click on the "dont reccomend channels" things
i cannot handle it, dont get me wrong his art is a master piece, but lord i would never want to saw him on my recomendation, i am too traumatized. anyway great video you make me aware of some artist who makes beautifull body horror art, i can atleast try to study the gore since i like drawing them on my freetime :3
Wayne Barlowe shoutout let's gooooo! I have several of his artbooks and his novels, utterly fantastic work, I easily get lost in his hellscapes and figures. The first one you showed, of the demon holding the brick, is the main character in his books, and he's a G. Barlowe has a new artbook in the works as well, focusing on the native creatures of hell, so keep an eye out for that!
I’m glad other people like him too, I was gonna go on a whole thing about his creature designs but ended up not doing thay
@@joshuabushman7 if you ever do find a way to squeeze his work into a video, that’d be dope. His alien designs are also 👌👌
Unironically the only thing this video made me look up was over the hedge by dreamworks. I really needed that nostalgia hit.
10/10 work, as always.
Pleasant intermission by Alariko. Displaying some of the very good sides of being alive in this world. Didn't know of the other artists so thank you for introducing. Mucho interesting.
surprised by no phil hale mention!! hes my absolute favorite
I feel like these painters are all pretty cool in making something interesting, but they don't feel like full scenes or worlds being represented sometimes. Its like a snippet of an idea every time, kind of a 'Ooooh, look at THIS spooky thing'.
every one of the paintings from suguru tanaka, julia soboleva, agostino arrivabene have cool ideas and great artistic execution, but a lot of them are just a floating subject in the middle of the canvas. maybe this is just a contemporary art thing- canvases are smaller now, theres a million artists out there, you need to portray an idea quickly and to the point. Quickness and clarity are great things in some art forms like tattoos, animation, etc. But its not something I really look for in fine art.
they're floating little islands of ideas with nothing around them. feels like concept art for a video game.
ken currie was probably my favorite artist I'd never heard of before here, he still suffers from single subject in a void disease but his ideas are interesting and his execution is cool.
also dragan bibin and zdzisław beksiński are naff as hell
thanks for the cool video :)
"rip off my skin" (positive) is such a delightful treat in art, a personal favorite feeling!! Thank you, I loved this video. It made me want to replay Kitty Horrorshow's ANATOMY (and also rip my skin off
Saw Three Oncologists by Ken Currie in Edinburgh and yeah that painting has so much presence. I might go see it again tomorrow, thanks for reminding me.
I love how you mix humor in with creepy artworks, like talking about over the hedge while i look at some disturbingly beautiful art. It really speaks to me, i enjoy this content 😫⁉️
Thanks for spreading the word about Agostino Arrivabene! I found out about him from the cover art of a metal record from I, Voidhanger records and fell in love with his style. Unironically extreme metal album art is a great way to discover underrated contemporary artists
damn, this is criminally underrated! Keep up the good work!
Didnt think i would be as deeply uncomfortable, curious, and in as much awe as when i was watching phil tippet's stop motion animated experimental horror film mad god ever again or by anything else, but i am the fool today and we were not ready for this
Funny + Timing’s on point + Delicious art talk = an actual banger of a video
Oh thank you
at 10:50 i recognized the music used in the video and its such a good choice, goes perfectly with these artists, thx for introducing me to Ken Currie's work in particular whew
Do you mind telling me what's the name of it? I really liked it when I heard it.
Man I need to know what song that is🙏
the way you talked about ken currie hurt me. ken curries art hurts me.
10:55
Wording it like a “divine/religious parasitic growth” is actually cold af imo. That is, judging by the vague context about the artist’s (bloody) religious childhood, and combined with common negative religious experiences ppl may experience
11:30
I spoke too soon 💀
You know, there are moments in my RUclips trawls that leave a profound impact on me, that shock me when I first see it, but pull me back again and again to shock me and give me the rush I felt when I first saw it. There always are both audio and visual components - a stunning visual put to the only piece of music that would do it justice. The abrupt transition into Ken Currie was one of those moments for me. The whole video was great, but I'll be coming back to this video for years to come just to experience that bone chilling transition over and over. Well done!
Liminal places don't have to be transitionary just empty/abandoned 🔥
Thank you
this is incorrect. motherfuckers out here just picking words they like the sound of and changing what they mean. stop it. get some help. the word means threshold. liminality pertains to being between things, or moving through things. transition. a waiting room is a liminal space. an elevator is a liminal space. twilight is liminal between day and night. a hotel room on a trip. the hotel room is not the destination, the hotel room is a space between home and the destination. a hallway.
Definitely, the actual "definition" is so outdated and wack.
Liminal spaces don't need a monster that just ruins it 🔥
@@hosatus2433 what I like about liminal spaces is that they dont have one clear definition, a liminal space is more something which everyone has a different connection to. So for some ppl its just empty nostalgic places, but other people see them as scary so if they wanna add a monster to add to the way they view liminal spaces then thats cool lol (for me I get that feeling with trevor henderson’s drawings). It does gets bad though when something like that gets into the general idea of a liminal space, so like every liminal space suddenly needs a Monster
Idk correct me if Im wrong
Wow you somehow managed to make the Ken Currie segment so much scarier than I imagined when I heard you saying to skip it at the beginning 👏 👏 👏
This got recommended to me and I clicked IMMEDIATELY. LOVE YOUR VIBE AND LOVE THE WAY YOU PRESENT THESE ARTISTS and discuss their …everything. Your passion and vibe is fantastic. I hope to GOD you make more videos about artists that are provoking like this. ENCORE!!!!!
being so serious right now but I have watched this video over and over because of the “soundtrack”, the commentary, AND THE KEN CURRIE SECTION COMING OUT OF NOWHERE?? this video scratches some sort of itch in my soul
A child scribbling over a bad memory. That’s beautiful and would be nice as a simile lmao
Love the just blatant Bloodborne reference in Suguru Tanaka’s painting. Anyone who’s played the game will immediately know which one it is.
please make more of these you've given me fuel for sooo much research and i need more ❤️
Agreed!!! Need more of this
I've never looked into any kind of art, so when this video popped up on my recommendation it looked cool and I loved it. I never comment, but oh my god when I heard the Ken Currie disclaimer I was like "ahhh how bad could it be" and I genuinely had to look away from the screen,and when I heard you say "I feel like if I look at it for too long something bad will happen" it made my heard race so fast because you literally said exactly what I was thinking. Scared the life out of me. I love art now.
I was going to leave a comment about how much i agree with your Bibin chapter but I was completely GAGGED by the Bradd Pitt factoid at the end. and the actual ending. an amazing ending honestly youre a cinema genius
This was really interesting, im in art school in france and my teachers show us a lot of artists that could inspire us or be studied or interest us to push us to find our path, and as i have a crave for something more of the type of what you discussed they don't give me a lot. I loved that, i loved that presentation more than you know thank you. And also you're fucking fun gotta stay around to see what you do next
8:46 how I take it is an adult looking back at a bad memory they had as a child and being haunted by it
the works that you showed from agostino were honestly comforting to me, weirdly. like, if I was there, with her, (10:53) I would feel safe.
I want more videos like these! They expose the artists and your commentary is very satisfying.
Babe wake up! Joshua Bushman uploaded
''Everywhere at the end of the world'' playing in the background is very fitting.
Bro I saw some of these on Pinterest and was wondering who made it, so thanks so much for talking about them and giving their full name and showing their style, I love how goofy you act in these, it's honestly great for inspiration! Keep it up!
I thoroughly enjoyed this please make more, i love the way you explain how you feel about these paintings. i love how many "creepy" paintings in way resonate with us which imo is comforting bit also disturbing.
Dogs being alert to something you can't sense is forever a nightmare trigger for me after staying at my cousins extremely haunted home in SC. Once you have a 100 lb female Bull Terrier mix crawl up on top of you and cover your neck with her head, protecting you like she would a puppy from an imminent predator, growling at an empty doorway in a house you just checked was empty, only to have your cousin, his wife, and his sister all confirm their own experiences of visually seeing shit...yeah I went from hard skeptic to a very open mind in the course of 12 hours.
do a video on conceptual body art / performance art, it will be up your alley im sure
I feel a strange kind of comfort while watching art from this 9:37 artist. I have been suffering from Depression and anxiety for so long that i have developed derealization and dissociation. It's a scary experience. Almost feels like I'm drowning in a gooey liquid.
I can feel my body too much to the point that i feel nothing at all. I hate how my skin feels, how i have to breathe, how i have to eat, how i must walk , how i must live to keep it moving. My body feels alien .
It doesn't feel mine. I just want to peel everything off and set my soul free.
And that is why , the art mentioned from here 9:37 feels so strangely comforting. As if I'm finally being heard. As if someone could finally see my pain.
I was watching this in class thanks for jumpscaring me with Ken Currie's art
Anyways I love how you went into Agostino's art, never heard of him but the art and your views on it really got ton me in a cool and unnerving way
I both adore and despise this type of art, my spine crawls just from looking at it, yet I can't look away.
Saw that first Ken Currie painting in a museum in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was the first painting in the room I was immediately drawn to. I don't know what it was, but there was something about it that had me just wanting to stare. At the same time, I didn't want to be near it, and I absolutely did not want to be in the room alone with it. It's a really weird medium between incredible/fascinating and digging. It feels like the subject is alive, and is fully concious of your presence. Really interesting painting. It's honestly one of the paintings that's stuck with me most out of the many that I've seen in different museums all over the world.
She is no longer alive (rip queen), but if you haven't, I think you should really check out Louise Bourgeois-- she seems right up your alley. I've written two academic papers about her so far, analyzing how she distorts the human form and turns it into something unsightly and grotesque, but in a subtle way. It doesn't read as a human body until you look at it for a little too long. One of her most stand-out works is based on a cannibalistic fantasy she's had since she was a child of her, her mother, and her sisters attacking and eating her abusive father. Another iconic piece is a representation of her mother through the form of distorted spiders. She's so fucked up, and I LOVE her work
very much agree on the ken currie part I am, absolutely fascinated by his paintings but I absolutely can't look them up after dark or when I'm alone,, also thanks for the artist recommendations very hot very sexy
Some of these make me hold my breath without even noticing
Thank you! I'm kind of just floating along as I discover which artists I like and I've added most of who you shined a light on to my list of "who to look into" which is always great. You made a nervous newbie feel welcome, no gatekeeping, no bad vibes. I like how you basically told any would be critics to just keep it to themselves, I also have to say that I truly appreciated the texts you posted regarding religious trauma - I read each one.
Agostino Arrivabene’s work reminds be of the book (and movie ig) ‘Annihilation’ by Jeff Vandermeer. That blend between human and divine and the cosmic, creepy-but-not-quite aura of the artwork is the exact feeling I had when reading the book.
I was actually going to mention that exact thing because a critic said the same thing. But once I saw the movie I was like eh I won’t mention it. But I need to actually read it it sounds like. I love weird sci-fi stuff
@@joshuabushman7 totally, the movie wasn’t bad but I liked the book better. It was less quick paced and horror focused and a whole lot stranger
Thanks, guy, I've never heard of any of these people but I really liked everything you showed
8:00 hii small correction!! Julia said she doesn't feel a sense of CULTURAL identity
this video introduced me to her art i did an art assignment about her :)) it's my 4th time watching this lmao keep up the silly stuff
Oh nice, thank you
This is thr first video of yours ive watched and the switch up from the cute sea side scenes to Gallowgate Lard made my heart hiccup in my chest 😭
Absolutely loving the music you used!! ❤❤ great vid!
i've never felt so seen. + also love how I can almost categorize this lil vid-essay as a piece of art 4 me bc lowk the room and you is giving liminal ahhh space and backrooms. so meta!
4:42 is clearly a reference to Bocklin's "Isle of the Dead"
Maybe it's because of my Autism that gives me a poor sense of danger, maybe it's the fact that I grew up on memes and learned how to make anything into a joke, or maybe it's the fact that I've seen enough horror both real and fictional, but I can't say that any of these disturbed me. They actually facinated me and inspire me to seek out similar content.
Also I can't unsee this dude dabbing at 11:22
I recently played a horror game called Fear and Hunger: Termina (a sequel to a game called fear and hunger) and in that game there's a lot of body horror in the enemies and stuff (though not as scary as the things seen in this video) its a very interesting game because mechanically wise it kind of sucks and it doesn't seem like its the type of game that can really be "scary" because of the way its designed, but i think it makes up for it by the entire ambience and the design of some of the enemies.
Basic plot goes something along the lines of 14 people get on a train all for wildly different reasons , the train for some reason completely stops at a small town called Prehevil where before waking up every character has a dream explaining a "Festival of Termina" and are told to kill each other and go to the tower in the center of the city.
I thought that since its a shitty RPGMaker game it couldn't possibly be scary but I think the fear is portrayed through many other means than simply scary stuff happens, the game is quite brutal and challenging so much that it puts many people off but the challenge adds to the fear so much, an enemy seemingly coming out of a place that was completely locked beforehand when you haven't gotten a save in over an hour is terrifying, especially when you combine that with the weird ass design they usually have. Not to mention whenever youre outside theres more or less a constant fog over the entire map which just adds to the eeriness.
The sound design as well is absolutely perfect, it's just perfectly eerie yet can go unbelievably hard when it wants to.
And then back to the original point of the art (bit of a tangent there haha) it is absolutely terrifying especially when put into the context of the world, shit is weird, the things morphs around, I mean there's literally an enemy which is A GUY F*CKING A HORSE MORPHED TOGETHER INTO WEIRD MASS CALLED THE "Centaur" and that's just a fairly minor enemy, I haven't even talked about some of the bosses.
It's an uninviting brutal game which adds to the fear, it's stupid at times, it makes you second guess every decision you make, you aren't encouraged to fight enemies which adds to the fear of them as well, the game limits you by your own fear.
Well if you're all the way down here thanks for listening to my rant about a thing mostly unrelated to the original video, I'd intended for it to be more concise and mostly about the art (I would've talked more about it but spoilers) but I got carried away so sorry about that, hope the fear aspect is close enough for this to not seem like a completely random rant.
if anyone reads the above comment please could you make a tldr cause I got to fear and hunger 2 body horror and stop reading
My interest in fear and hunger stopped when I looked up a playthrough and the first thing that popped up was a ra*e speedrun (censoring so Yt won’t zoink my comment)
@@randompandemonium4823 Guy just wanted to talk about a spooky and brutal game that makes him want to tear his skin off
@@szniok oh ima report you
fear and hunger is a gift to the horror and gore community. It inspired me a lot to write and draw, I love it
that was actually beautiful, 10/10 you’re interpretations of all the art was soooo fascinating and interesting to listen to
9/11 joke caught me so off guard I ain’t laughed like that in a minute😭
this is an absolutely insane 3 am watch but I loved it regardless bc ur good at what u do bushman. KEEP UP THE GREAT GREAT WORK!!!!
Arrivabene's work definitely feels familiar to me with religious trauma. similar to what you mentioned in your note on screen, religious trauma doesn't always mean "i hate church because it hurt me and i'll never go near church again", it can be very love/hate. while i've gotten more comfortable in my own connection with god, i'm reminded that i essentially turned my back on a community that knew me since birth because of my queerness. that's a family i cannot rejoin, even if i wanted to. it feels lonely.
I love finding videos that talk about my favorite stuff man
What’s the song at 10:16? Good video btw ❤ I love finding all the artists that push the line on how disturbing they can make their works. I remember back during my contemporary art class that our professor showed us these paintings by a German artist whose name escapes me right ( it the one with ruins of a church in the middle of a forest) but we kept looking at his paintings most of my class didn’t care nor bother to look from their computer screens while I was completely infatuated by his art and I remember so vividly that I wanted to more art like this. This eerie unknown of the world inside the painting.
Arrivabene’s art reminds me a little bit of the effects the “shimmer” had on people in annihilation which i love
i found dragan bibin's artwork about a year ago after randomly scrolling google images for about an hour, and i gasped when i heard his name lol. it was so obscure and i couldn't find a lot about his work so i assumed he was an unknown artist. i spent about 2 hours going through his work, it's so interesting.
I have watched this video 4 or 5 times now, there is such an enthusiasm for art in it and I love it
AI wishes it could be Ken Currie
This was such an intriguing video 10/10
6:16 those are some cuty handsome peoples 😅
I just discovered your channel this editing is so chaotic amazing work
ALSO SUGURU TANAKTA'S WORK AT 4:37 IS A DIRECT REFERENCE OF BOCKLIN'S DEATH ISLAND
never in my days i could imagine ripping off my own skin. now, i reconsidering it
thanks for the moment
Omg. I loved this vid sm I watched it 3 times (I never watch vids more than 1 time)
Nice
instantly subscribed! you speak so freely and you're funny yet so articulate and well spoken. GOOD vIDEOOO
5:57 in high rn and im not fucking with this AT ALL rn lmao
dude, this was such a high dive into an inspirational abyss. Thank you!
3:06 legendary transition
I love Suguru's paintings so much. Great video
imagine 5:40 at night when you go to the toilet