“ordinary morality is for ordinary people” - Aleister Crowley
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There can be few, if any, painters, in the history of fantastic art whose images have touched so many minds in such a short period as those of Giger. Though many of the great artists of the fantastique, Breughel, Goya, Daumier, Dore, were very public artists, with their work displayed in churches and salons, newspapers, prints, pamphlets and books, the sum of their admirers during their lifetimes cannot be equalled to the audiences that have seen the ‘Alien’ films since they were made. But while the cinema’s power to disseminate images is worthy of note, its very ubiquity may make audiences neglectful of the source of those images. It is Giger’s paintings which are his true gift to the world of the imagination: The creations which the ‘Alien’ films for their power to excite, can but wanly imitate. To simply characterise Giger as, “The artist of 'Alien’,” is like calling Michelangelo the set designer for 'The Agony And The Ecstasy’.
The images Giger has created have a power that demands closer and more reflective study than the sleek, slick hyperactive style of modern fantastic cinema allows. Without such close scrutiny the ambiguities at the heart of the work remain unexplored: The creatures he paints are reduced to the condition of monsters, the scenarios he depicts trivialised to the point where all they elicit is disgust.
I ask you, look again. Though we come into Giger’s world astonished and intimidated by its strangeness, it does not take long to learn its codes and its iconography and, the more familiar we become with the landscape and its inhabitants, the more familiar it seems. Like all great visionnaries, Giger has no truck with superfice; he plunges his hands into the raw stuff of our subconscious and, using methodologies that are unique to him, creates a state that is rigorous, hierarchical and, for all its abysmal depths, inviting. In mapping the tribal lands of our psyches, Giger gives us fresh access to them. He frees us, in essence, to wander there, encouraged by the fact that others have gone before. He makes us brave and I can think of few higher ambitions for any art. Following where he’s gone, we discover this new country, which we came into, fearful of our sanity, about our lives in countless places. We are not, after all, strangers here. It’s the world we must return intom the world of the mortgage payment and the tax return; of the domestic tiff and the public slight, that seems chilling, repulsive, alien.
Clive Barker, HR Giger’s Necronom 2
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30 - ReptiliansThe years that pass serve as our lessons moving forward, my mother told me. Fight what something seems like and put your best intentions out there. You will always have your family, and that fire in your belly.
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