Video: Monsters from childhood nightmares by Danish artist
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Danish artist John Kenn Mortensen draws monsters from children's nightmares in the style of laconic graphics. The author makes all the drawings on tiny sheets of paper torn from a notebook.
The illustrations are perfect for children's books - but even adults will feel the ominous atmosphere that permeates the drawings. Most people will see here their own fears of many years ago - monsters living under the bed, giants growing out of the dark, terrible beasts lurking in the dark forest.
The artist masterfully notices and brings out the most secret human phobias. Creepy spiders, spirits of the dead, sea monsters become real - and, thus, lose some of their frightening power.
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