#prints out this essay and crumples it up and eats it

sacrosanctities:

limesquares:

A glimpse of something unnatural…

[via@anxiouskelpie​​ ] –This guy gets it!

This concept actually came of a late night conversation between Mr. Squares and myself about the mechanics of fear. I’m especially enamored by the artist’s accuracy in translating my verbal abstraction to a visual delineation of the fear response I was describing, which the viewer gets to experience in real-time. (Vanity? Maybe. Our minds ❤️   )

The scenario is you’re working late, everyone else has gone home, and you’ve grabbed your flashlight to investigate a noise. The illustration depicts the exact second the beam of the flashlight glances over a hand amidst the jumble of equipment and cabinetry, and for the briefest of moments the hand remains just another inanimate object (an effect exaggerated by the monochromatic color scheme, which gives it a clay-like appearance), before you register it as a human hand attached to a human being, before, with growing alarm, you follow the wrist up and begin to discern a silhouette and realize Oh God, I’m not alone after all, there is another living person here, there has been another living person here, and the horror sets in. Their gaze becomes voyeuristic; how long have they been watching you from the dark? The fear lives in this very moment, in the realizing, in the jolting sensation of being entirely alone (or thinking yourself entirely alone, which is the same thing) until, very suddenly, this is no longer the case.