{"id":8818,"date":"2014-10-27T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=8818"},"modified":"2014-10-27T09:35:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T15:35:16","slug":"gorgeously-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/gorgeously-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorgeously Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"il_fullxfull.475132936_d734\"This week counts down to that one very\u00a0dark and ominous day (or fun and frolicsome, depending on your approach)\u00a0sometimes known as the All Saint’s Eve, Day of the Dead, Samhain, Allantide\u00a0among other things, but most\u00a0commonly known as Halloween. It’s that day when, in many Christian-based religions as well as pagan and European folklore, we either have a chance to speak to loved ones passed on and\/or we must hide from the demons and other creatures that have the opportunity to walk the earth the one night when the veil between the worlds of the living and dead are thinnest. That makes the holiday seem rather dreary, but truly, it’s more of a celebration of the lives that have lived. Death and the things of the dark exist in contrast to the vibrancy of life and the light. Without the dark, how would we appreciate the light? And even the dark things can be quite beautiful.<\/p>\n

So this week, let’s look at the beauty of dark things. I promise it will not be all spooky and ghoulish. But, okay, we’re going to start off kind of on that end. If you are familiar with the movie Aliens <\/em>then you would likely then\u00a0recognize the imagery of Swiss sculptor, painter and set designer, H.R. Giger<\/a>\u00a0who designed the alien and extraterrestrial environments for that movie, in the work of\u00a0Aniko Kolesnikova<\/a>\u00a0that you see here. This journal cover is a display piece that Aniko uses to show off her hand tooled polymer sculpture techniques. The melding of Aniko’s skills and the Giger imagery makes for gorgeous lines and intriguing textures as well as being an combined example from two different artists of how beautiful the dark renditions of the imagination can be.<\/p>\n

Most of Aniko’s work is not that dark, she just embraces this as part of all that is beautiful in this world. Or that’s how I see her work. I mean, her moniker is “Mandarin Duck” (I don’t know why … ) and commonly refers to her blog readers<\/a>\u00a0as “honey bunnies”, so she’s definitely not all about the dark side. See more of her varied work on her\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0and more journals on this Pinterest board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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