Video: William Hand's harmless nightmares
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William began drawing at a very early age, like many children, trying to capture on paper the fruits of his wild imagination, images of non-existent worlds and their inhabitants. His current style contains echoes of his days when his main interests were dinosaurs, beetles and robots, to which were later added old locomotives, radio towers and dog noses. William has collected these and other elements into fantastic and futuristic images and mechanisms.
He started painting with acrylics in high school. More often than not, the paintings come to him gradually, section by section, each of which spontaneously prompts the artist where to move on.
Despite the fact that his tools are quite diverse, recently he pays most attention to acrylic paints, most often applying them with aerosols.
Regarding the sometimes nightmarish and frightening images in his work, William says: "You will never find true evil in my work, but you may well find things there that would most likely devour you if you had the opportunity." Considering some representatives of humanity much more terrible creatures than those presented in his works, he notes that “there is already a lot of fear in the world now, and it is not my goal to make it even stronger in the imagination of people. I just love all these monsters, so just like children love dinosaurs or how a peaceful person can admire the strength and aesthetics of war machines I don't want to be eaten or blown up and I don't want anyone to suffer such a fate, but I don't find anything wrong with enjoying the sight of that that might very well do this to you."
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