I've always been fascinated by the Gothic, in all its artistic expressions: architecture of the great European cathedrals of the thirteenth century the novels of Matthew Gregory Lewis, Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley, the films of Murnau and Wegener to the paintings of Bruegel and Bosch, up to the music and sound obscure edgy bands like Black Widow, High Tide, Dr. Z, Monument, Atomic Rooster, Black Sabbath and Necromandus ...
The true artist is able to interpret the Gothic art in accordance with its thoughts, using different interpretations, capturing the beauty of horror with full awareness, to create a real aesthetic founded on it.
The characters that populate this world of art are ghosts, monsters and demonic creatures, products imagination, always fascinating and unconventional, which measure our attraction towards all that is different, alien and therefore unknown.
Gothic poetry in particular is building on that part "hanging" of our soul that we never know fully, which remains unknown, latent, suspended, in fact, in the air over the top of our daily lives.
Here is a collection of small works in which the supernatural elements are so important and so these are nothing more than the codified expression of our common fears, our desires unmentionable, of all the worries that accompany us from childhood.
The horror, the monstrosity, fear, are the most amazing spring of the social imaginary and its cathartic function and act as a temptress reagent outlined in this world and bound by dogmas and rules, helping us to free ourselves from the tensions of our times.
Steve Sylvester
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