Author: Christopher Ian
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Our Lady of Mortification
Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows is a darkwave music, film, and photography project designed by Anna-Varney Cantodea. Though identified as darkwave there are strong elements of choir, baroque and folk music that would make the music quite appropriate in a pagan festival due to not only the renaissance instrumental sound but also the…
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Aesthetic Meat Front
Puppet master Louis Fleischauer orchestrates a cacophony of pain, music, and fashion by engineering the human flesh into a musical instrument. An infernal musical notation is produced by use of electronic instruments connected to the flesh while simultaneously inflicting measured pain to the body through means of body modification. The physical pain is essential to…
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Le Femme Fantome
Irina Ionesco is a French photographer whose most notable works were the nude pictures she took of her daughter Eva between the age of four and eleven. The works feature Eva as a nude porcelain doll lavishly adorned and surrounded by negative space that makes her innocent body even more susceptible by the enclosing darkness.…
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Opus of Desolation
Every artist at some point in their life has to ask their self how committed they will be in either pursuing their art as a hobby aside from another career or as a lifestyle and career. The stakes are high as on one hand employment provides a means to survive, and on the other…
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Icon of Evil
The general definition of decadence is the deterioration of a person, place, or thing. Because the natural principle of decadence is to deteriorate, it is natural that wealth precedes it. And it is more often than not that it is extravagance that invites decadence to the party. The Greek saying ‘everything in moderation’ is the…
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The Genius Misfortune
One can only pray to be so forward in their art that the government would censor their work. Censorship, protesting, or any form of mass vilification toward an artist’s work is often the desperate cries of a generation losing their grip as providence blesses the next generation with innovation. It is no surprise when strong…
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The Resonance of Silence
It is a music apocalypse and dark ambient musicians are using the sounds of the trumpets to produce audible desolation. Since the conception of music, harmony, rhythm, and meter have been essential in pulling the strings of the human spirit. But when that composition is broken down and melody and harmony become orphans, what is…
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Dark Satellites
Perception is relative to point of view. Identity is impressionable to awareness. Communication is a two step process of receiving and giving. Expression is a revelation of our awareness to what we have received and how we articulate a response. Expression is a projection of the self. It is form and action that is articulated…