
Aaron Gideon, 2020, ink on paper, 9″ x 12″

Richard A. Kirk, Twist, 2020, ink on paper, 9″ x 9″
Check out the art for May’s challenge!
The inspiration for this month’s challenge was a quote from the mighty Thomas Ligotti’s story The Red Tower.
“Numerous natural objects, mostly bulbous gourds, were designed to produce a long deafening scream whenever they were picked up or otherwise disturbed in their vegetable stillness.”
As always, the quote was a jumping off point. You can see we had some fun with it. I didn’t notice until I put these images side by side how uncannily similar the compositions are. Look at the left hand flower in Aaron’s piece and compare it with the leaves in the skull on mine. Both have a large face in the central area and both have a right leaning twist to the mass. I really dig the way a close look at Aaron’s piece reveals so many cool little details.
Hope you enjoyed checking out this challenge!
– Richard