I could spend hours scouring the internet for imagery… and no, unlike many of you who use the internet for a similar pursuit, I’m not talking about collecting untold gigabytes of pornography!
I like looking for art and artworks of obscure artists. I think it’s amazing that I am able to see the works of an art student in Russia or an little known sculptor in Spain or an accomplished illustrator like Toby Allen who created these ‘Real Monsters’, as artistic representations of mental disorders.
Today is Halloween, which in Australia generally means very little, no matter how hard retailers are trying to get us to buy into this particularly un-Hallmark, but decidedly consumerist, holiday. Popular culture seems to spend a lot of time cogitating on zombies and vampires and things generally undead, that generally go bump in the night. Monsters of this kind do not bother me at all. Never have and never will. But these ‘Real Monsters’ of Toby Allen’s… well, them I got some experience with, and they scare the shit out of me.