314: Bizarre Bazaar

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Dear Patrons,

Here’s a quick little mood piece I’m experimenting on. Although, this update technically qualifies as a short story vignette, I’ll leave this update light on words and let the visuals tell the story, along with the usual update progresses on concurrent projects.

Bon appétit!

The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred. 

I. BIZARRE BAZAAR

Pay for your ticket to enter a show. Surreal is the theme of the event. It begins like a dream. A museum-like with a soporific quality. Step into another world, leave your phones and any recording devices behind, along with your old identity, at least just for a while. The masks you wear grants you privacy and a new persona as magic awaits. 

Under the glow of the incandescent string lights, the diorama look real. A little too real. But that is the intangible quality of the Bazaar. Is it a horror show? Or is it an art exhibit? There is a sexual quality to this presentation. Only 21 and over allowed. Worse than X-rated as it is meant to tickle that part of your brain that awakens a darkness that can never be reined in once released. Once seen, it cannot be unseen. That is part of the charm and draw of this very expensive experience. Like a virus awakening certain unspeakable hungers.

Image 1: (1 complete artwork in color)

Most of the audience leaves none the wiser, marked forever, and becomes the vessel of that most effective promotional method, the stuff of urban legends that beget the rare disseminative quality of advertising through word-of-mouth.

“You’ve got to be there!”

“It is a once in a lifetime experience!”

“Was it real?”

“It can’t be, can it?”

“Too outrageous!”

“That was amazing!”

Image 2: (1 complete artwork in color)

In the end, it is merely an art exhibit with an audience, actors and such vivid, grotesque set dec0rations of visuals that brand itself into the mind like a permanent scar.

Those who are fortunate to enter may see, but not touch. Then there is a second tier of those who attend. They are in a truer sense, not the audience, nor actors, but participants. They are privy to the true secrets of the Bizarre Bazaar. Their exhibitionist attitudes to present themselves so boldly to the unwitting is part of the satisfaction. Why not hide in plain sight, for the truth would be too horrific for the unwitting to believe?

Nobody wants to believe that some nightmares are real. 

— to be continued? —

II. AGONY OF DEFEAT

An almost complete work in progress from the project AGONY OF DEFEAT. 

Image 3: (1 colored & shaded works in progress)

III. TAILLEUR CUT SPLAYED ON A BED OF FRUITS AND GREENS

Here’s a pair of works in progress of a scene that I’m developing thanks to a helpful patron. I’m planning to add intrusive actors with groping hands to this piece.

Image 4-5: (2 inked & colored work in progress)

IV. PAINTED BIRD IN LOST CARCOSA

Works in progress of the aforementioned story, blocking and coloring.

Image 6: (1 colored work in progress)

And a bunch of new sketches from the same story, after the hunt.

Image 7-12: (6 various sketches in progress of a similar scene)

And one more, a closeup for foot lovers.

Image 13: (1 sketched work in progress)

V. OCCULTI VATICANI: CLAUSI CUM CLAVE

A scene from the OCCULTI VATICANI: CLAUSI CUM CLAVE storyline when the quarry is still part of the living.

Image 14: (1 sketched work in progress)

And here are a group of loose sketches I’ve been experimenting on.

Image 15-16: (1 carious black & white sketches)

VI. BONUS WORKS IN PROGRESS

Just a pair of loosely unrelated sketches. The first is of the MIDI CUT being carved and taken apart a la barbecue. The second is of a slim victim being hung upside down and in a partial state of undress.

Image 17-18: (2 various works in progress)