Artist Ryohei Hase is a Japanese illustrator. His work is haunting with dark,painstakingly painted imagery straight from your subconscious. Heplays with the idea of bondage and displays this fetish in a most instinctual manor in the "Bound series" I find his work very provcative.

This is the work of my good friend Gregg Turner who grew up in California in the sixties and is a direct result of that time period. he works with found art and assemblage, combined with painting. He also helped to found a new gallery and artist commune in Marfa Texas called Tille Arts

Carolein Smit is a successful practicing artist from the Netherlands who shows all over Europe. This pic is a Teepot man who has been skinned and decorated with gold luster. She deals with classic imagery like Mary Magdalen,but takes it to the extreme!

Beth Robinson is a successfully doll peddler who has been showing her dolls all over Europe and the U.S. since 2003. She is a self taught artist from England who began her career as an oil painter. I love her take on the creepiness we all sometimes feel around dolls,she definitely pushes the phobia!

This is an example of mumification in ancient Egypt. I have been researching different forms of mummification, both natural, and cerimonial for my project.

Art Student Kittiwat Unarrom brings horror to life in his Tai bakery! His father was a bread maker so it was a natural evolution for Kitt to use his inherited bread making skills to create his gruesome art. These realistic body parts are sold at the shop and completely edible!!:)

Paul Booth is the premiere black and grey tattoo artist in the world!! He also creates disturbing multimedia art work at his studio Last Rights in New York.