Heya Crank.
he explains his choice for Grotesque on his project
The original meaning of 'Grotesque" was restricted to an extravagant style of Ancient Roman decorative art, rediscovered and then copied in Rome at the end of the 15th century. Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, fantastic, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks.
Although there is an immense variety of motifs and figures in Grotesque style, the three main tropes of the grotesque are doubleness, hybridity and metamorphosis.
During Renaissance, artists began to give the tiny faces of the figures in grotesque decorations strange caricatured expressions. In the 17th and 18th centuries the grotesque encompasses a wide field of teratology (science of monsters) and artistic experimentation.
Although grotesque art mainly favored the weird, ugly and monstrous, as an artist I try to bring "Grotesque" to my taste and make a deck which will be at the same time strange and beautiful.
I was always impressed by these haunting figures and about a year ago I decided to make some drawings for a deck called "Grotesque". After a year's nourishing, the deck finally came out and it's ready to begin its KS adventure!
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