All the illustrations in this book were once on a canvas. They’ve been
reproduced into this little glossy book in full color and it’s a pleasure to
look at. Well, it’s a pleasure if you’re a bit twisted, anyway, because these
pictures are dark and surreal. Each figure, be it a human or animal or
combination of the two, is contorted, out of sync, and grotesque—whether it be
the baby throwing down with the snake, a boxer getting destroyed by his
opponent, or the stripper and her dead-eyed, shark-faced customers, or Adam and
Eve enjoying their exile from Eden cavorting naked near a pile of skulls.
Tierce, in the introduction, talks about the monsters she would see in the
darkness as a kid, “waiting to jump out and grab her.” Now she attempts to
recreate this feeling by starting with a black canvas and then turning the
shapes she sees into the lost and damned creatures in this book. –Craven Rock
(Indigo Raven Publishing, 1413 ½
W. Kenneth Rd., Glendale,
CA 91201)
DIY punk rock
