Thursday, October 30, 2008

Pants Wettingly Good Art

Hi,

I do not use this phrase lightly.

Dealing with wet pants is one of those things I still have a problem with in spite of being a dad to a 3 year old...

Alex CF just hit my top 5 artists of all time, and it took just 5 minutes of looking around his website.

Imagine you could buy a specimen case brought back from the Lost World penned by Arthur Conan Doyle...

Or maybe some remnant of the expedition to the Mountains of Madness in antarctica penned by the great H.P. Lovecraft...

Or even the travel case accidentally left behind by Death when he was making a house call...

This artist just blows me away with the detail he puts into his creations. His ability to model and hunt down minor antiques to put the touch of authenticity into his work is staggeringly good.

The fact that his work centres around good books, and myths, that intrigue and delight me just adds to my enthusiasm.

This is the first time I have wanted to rush out and buy an artists work in the last 10 years.

Wow

NP Out

P.S. big thanks for technoccult for yet again pointing me in a direction I hadn't known existed but for some reason felt like I had been looking for - for ages

2 comments:

Violet said...

"pants wettingly good" is a fairly odd term. It sounds like the art made you laugh really hard...

I had a quick look at the artist's website - quite impressive how he's produced both the object itself and a fascinating story around it. But I wouldn't buy one though - I mean, where the heck does one put it?

BTodger said...

The obvious answer to that question is -

In my lair!