Drawings and animations by Ryuko Azuma here (blog front page here). [via] Not work safe if you live in a repressive Puritanical culture (i.e., most places). Fairly relentless psychosexual content: genitalia (human and alien), mutilation, b/d, but often exquisitely drawn. The style leans to anime/commercial illustration but twisted. I'm assuming from the blog photo that Azuma is female; a man drawing many of these images in the "West" would be looked askance upon by the pc left or locked up by the religious right. There is a lot of this type of work on the internet, meaning that it has always existed in sketchbooks that rarely saw the light of day until now. It taps the well of dark collective fears and yearnings that artists like Inka Essenhigh, Sue Williams, and Nicola Tyson also access, but I would argue they do it less effectively, especially now that they are market entities and can't "go too far." There is still a divide of what's appropriate in public and private and oddly the internet isn't considered the former, at least until someone decides to shut a site down.
Thanks for that link, I think that her [eta] Climbing Up The Walls will be a new feature for me in future nightmares. (therefore, I really like it)
Pretty sure he is a she. I added a link to her blog front page, which has a photo.
(thanks. lazy ass presumption on my part. shame.)
As you know, you're supposed to face this women in the Octagon. Do you refuse an honorable challenge? And where's that Curved Air vid that you could do in, oh, ten seconds?
Philip Shropshire
www.threeriversonline.com
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Drawings and animations by Ryuko Azuma here (blog front page here). [via] Not work safe if you live in a repressive Puritanical culture (i.e., most places). Fairly relentless psychosexual content: genitalia (human and alien), mutilation, b/d, but often exquisitely drawn. The style leans to anime/commercial illustration but twisted. I'm assuming from the blog photo that Azuma is female; a man drawing many of these images in the "West" would be looked askance upon by the pc left or locked up by the religious right. There is a lot of this type of work on the internet, meaning that it has always existed in sketchbooks that rarely saw the light of day until now. It taps the well of dark collective fears and yearnings that artists like Inka Essenhigh, Sue Williams, and Nicola Tyson also access, but I would argue they do it less effectively, especially now that they are market entities and can't "go too far." There is still a divide of what's appropriate in public and private and oddly the internet isn't considered the former, at least until someone decides to shut a site down.
- tom moody 7-06-2006 11:44 pm
Thanks for that link, I think that her [eta] Climbing Up The Walls will be a new feature for me in future nightmares. (therefore, I really like it)
- L.M. 7-07-2006 12:02 am
Pretty sure he is a she. I added a link to her blog front page, which has a photo.
- tom moody 7-07-2006 12:07 am
(thanks. lazy ass presumption on my part. shame.)
- L.M. 7-07-2006 1:30 am
As you know, you're supposed to face this women in the Octagon. Do you refuse an honorable challenge? And where's that Curved Air vid that you could do in, oh, ten seconds?
Philip Shropshire
www.threeriversonline.com
- Steelydan (guest) 7-07-2006 5:05 am