Saturday, December 11, 2010

Juan Cabana's art: realistic sea monstrous creatutes

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If you read articles in net about findings of decomposed mermaid corpses or strange mythical sea-creatures keep on being sceptic! Because someone naive or a prankster has taken as real the "realistic" sculptures by Juan Cabana of mythical monstrous sea creatures, created, staged and photographed in real environments. The art of hoax, so to speak!
We read in his SITE where you can find much more pictures of his creatures:
Cabana's mermaids are no gentle pre-Raphaelite maidens. These mermaids seduce us, not with their siren beauty, but with parchment skin and haunted eyes. Their allure lies in their hypnotic honesty. Cabana's mermaids have been dredged from the stygian depths, where the pressure and endless darkness breed spine-toothed monsters and grotesque simian scavengers. These creatures are the sisters and brothers of Barnum's Mermaid, some crawling from the banks of a lagoon, others laid out like wizened specimens in a laboratory. They seethe with life, they call to us with shrill tongues and crooked fingers, they beg to drag us down into the abyss. From the mid-ocean trenches and the bottomless channels they come.


Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Houses - little men (Goblins)

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Goblins, or houses - little men, whose lot - always intervene in human affairs, distinguished not only by evil intentions, but an ugly appearance. They were lounging around the farms, villages, usually not foreshadowing anything good. His dark and often black people they madly frightened townsfolk. hobgoblins steal something that is bad, sometimes even taken away the horses that gallop across the field furious gallop. In the morning horse's mane is provided to coiled and tied to the incredible sites.

They say sometimes invisible goblins perform some work at home, although that nobody asked. In return, they expected that the owner will leave next to the stove a piece of bread and a cup of cream. Stretching in all its small size on a warm stove, goblins enjoyed the homey feel, which is very loved. They had a passion for exquisite wines and beautiful girls.

Hobgoblins, brownies were rude, hairy, larger and designed primarily for rural life. They threshed wheat for the family, split wood or do other heavy household chores.

In a good mood Hobgoblin was a sort of guardian spirit at home: took care of workers, protecting values. If he was angry, I could drink all the cream, to stop the cooking oil in the churn to hide the necessary utensils. Villagers prpisyvali hobgoblins their character traits - simplicity, modesty, cheerfulness.