Maika: I cannot get enough of photographs that transports me out of myself, photographers whose lenses serve as liminal zones that draw me in and make the world around me fall away as I’m drawn through a portal of their own creation. Nona Limmen is one such photographer. Would that I could afford to surround […]
Maika: For me, attending Death Salon Seattle was a life-altering experience. In addition to the friends I got to meet in person for the first time, new friends made, finally attending one of Paul Koudounaris’ talks, and, of course, meeting The Modern Mortician and Kermit the Dog, had I not attended, I would not have […]
Maika: My favorite photographers tend to be those who create entire worlds, both large and small. Worlds that I wish I could myself inhabit, but instead may only experience via tantalizing and tormenting glimpses, and perhaps what bits manage to permeate my dreams. The singularly beautiful and haunting work of photographer Laura Makabresku has been one […]
Maika: I’m every bit as enamored of and profoundly moved by Christina Mrozik’s artwork as I was when I wrote about it in the summer of 2017. Late last year Mrozik launched a Kickstarter campaign for a book of her drawings and writings, entitled Haunted Bodies. It was overwhelmingly successful – fully funded almost immediately – […]
Maika: When I began writing for Haute Macabre in 2016, one of the very first things I wanted to do was share an essay I’d already been writing and rewriting for years. It’s about the work of artist Scott Radke, one of my favorite contemporary artists, who has since become a friend. Each time I […]
S. Elizabeth: When I began writing for Haute Macabre in 2015, the last thing I ever thought I’d be sharing with you guys is how I began to heal my past traumas with the help of a skull-faced megalomaniac from an 80’s cartoon show. But you know, sometimes these things just write themselves… The support […]
