![]() ![]() ![]() Blood, boobs, violence – in today’s near-saturated visual landscape, few things leave an impression on the mind before landing in the wasteyard of gratuity. What’s challenging about working with these themes is surpassing the pitfalls of triteness. The coupling is Hollywood, like ghostly Marilyn Manson clad in black with Rose McGowan in a scarlet gown that plunges at the bustline. Twin pillars of American culture, sex and death are both verboten and banal. Courtesy the artist + 2dcloud, Minnesota. ![]() Aidan Koch in Mirror Mirror II (2017) Illustration. Ecstasy, a coveted state, comes from the Ancient Greek ekstasis, to “stand outside oneself.” The closest thing to rapturous, death-like bliss, so the French insist, are orgasms. In the foreword of Mirror Mirror II, the freshly-arrived erotic horror comic anthology edited by Julia Gfrörer and Sean T Collins and released in July by Minnesota-based publisher 2dcloud, Gretchen Alice Felker-Martin writes, “great horror is the pursuit of meaning through defilement, a conscious and inquisitive violation of the mind, the body, the beloved, the home.” In a safe, trusting environment, losing control can feel exhilarating, like bungeeing out of the body before snapping back in. Among what both arousal and fear share is how the sensations strip you bare. ![]()
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