Thursday, May 19, 2005

Sweet Childhood Innocence?

These are sought after paintings by Bob Byerley. Paintings with titles like 'Fascination' and 'An Angel in Dell's Cottage'. Pictures of children playing and laughing. But these paintings are your worst nightmare. Images of scary puppets and sinister shadows. See what you think?

A seemingly innocent picture of kids playing on the porch. But wait. Look closer. The little girl on the floor...Look at her head angle. She's had her neck broken by the angry looking ginger kid. Her face expressionless in deaths stare. The evil little kid with the hat laughs uncontrollably and the ring leader. Damien with the white shirt and blonde hair smirks with satisfaction.


Another picture of childhood joy. A puppet show. Little Stevie plays with his strings and paper puppets he made himself...hmm all dressed only in underwear. Curious. But look deep into the shadows. The evil puppets gather behind to pounce. See the ugly one right at the front on watch, whilst the others prepare their steely little knives to slash him up (we've all watched puppetmaster) who the devil would want this on their wall?


Then we have le piece de resistance. Evil twins Beatrice and Eugenie with the huge heads and deformed fingers torture the baby they have badly burnt. See their sinister crazed smiles. Angels of mercy or the devil incarnate?
And what has that baby got on anyways? And who does their hair. It's like Farrah Fawcett Majors Deja Vue.

2 comments:

racingpartsales.com said...

Disturbing that someone can use children in such a twisted way to represent their view of the life. Grotesque is the feeling I am left with.

Anonymous said...

Well, I find your odd viewpoints very funny. Carry on.

Minor critiscism. You missed the fact that the little boy is clearly wearing an SS officer's hat. I think this may be related to the large prawn crawling into his left ear which is probably a reincarnation of Adolph.