It seems that there is actually more macabre in the mundane reality and our surroundings than in the drawings or paintings of the best fantasy masters.
What examples can I give today? First, I would suggest that many of my pictures are odd, bizarre, strange, creepy, and macabre. Moreover, extreme cases we can find in many historical documents. If you doubt, my Dear Friend, I would suggest you look at photos from concentration camps. The first example could be Auschwitz-Birkenau. Moreover, as another example, I would suggest looking at pictures from the fights of the Warsaw Uprising. Analyze pictures of destroying Poland’s capital after this tragic event. From recent history, we can find macabre in reality in photographs of the bombed city of Aleppo in Syria. There is no such horror and dreadfulness in my photos. Still, they also often seem closer to macabre, weirder, and bizarre spectacle than the phantasmagories of the artists.
I already wrote that reality is stranger than fiction.
The truth is that many artists, including Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Salvador Dali, or Zdzislaw Beksinski, took many inspirations and incentives from their mundane, contemporary surroundings, from items they were seen throughout their lifetimes. Undoubtedly, imagination is the crucial factor while painting or writing many horror themes. Still, I believe that it is a mundane reality that creates fantasy works of art. Usually, surroundings, items, and other people are the fundamental starting point in creating new, marvelous, often macabre phantasmagorias.
The rest is the author’s unique imagination that also plays a vital role in creating macabre art.
I can imagine that other artists and even myself can take many incentives from my photographs. We can say that these pictures are weird and macabre. Who knows, perhaps someday I will take a pencil into my hand, and I will start drawing something while watching and observing one of my pictures.
PS
I wrote this text on the 31st of May, 2021.
