Diablerie Licentious Sorbet
Drawing on paper. Colored pencil, acrylic, ink. 8.5 × 11 inches.
A Lurid Feast of the Macabre
Diablerie Licentious Sorbet is a dazzlingly grotesque and surreal exploration of mortality, decadence, and chaos. This vividly colored piece combines spectral imagery with swirling abstractions, creating a composition that is as unsettling as it is hypnotic.
Drawing on paper. Colored pencil, acrylic, ink. 8.5 × 11 inches.
A Lurid Feast of the Macabre
Diablerie Licentious Sorbet is a dazzlingly grotesque and surreal exploration of mortality, decadence, and chaos. This vividly colored piece combines spectral imagery with swirling abstractions, creating a composition that is as unsettling as it is hypnotic.
Drawing on paper. Colored pencil, acrylic, ink. 8.5 × 11 inches.
A Lurid Feast of the Macabre
Diablerie Licentious Sorbet is a dazzlingly grotesque and surreal exploration of mortality, decadence, and chaos. This vividly colored piece combines spectral imagery with swirling abstractions, creating a composition that is as unsettling as it is hypnotic.
At the heart of the artwork, a spectral blue skull with hollow, glowing green eyes looms ominously, surrounded by undulating, flame-like forms in vibrant pinks, oranges, and greens. Beneath it, a charred, molten skull emerges, its blackened eye sockets and jagged teeth evoking themes of decay and destruction. Around these central figures, ghostly, amorphous shapes float, each one alive with electric energy and sharp contrasts, suggesting the interplay of life and death, horror and delight.
The title, Diablerie Licentious Sorbet, playfully juxtaposes the imagery of the demonic and the indulgent, inviting viewers to consider the dark allure of excess and the surreal blending of pleasure and terror. The bold use of color heightens the sensory impact of the piece, making it feel almost like a fever dream or a forbidden banquet of the imagination.
With its otherworldly vibrancy and macabre whimsy, Diablerie Licentious Sorbet is a bold and thought-provoking work that draws viewers into its vivid, spectral world, offering a meditation on the beauty found within the grotesque and the chaotic.
