Turning back the clocks denotes one old tradition, Halloween. It’s origins date back from the ancient festival known as Samhain (pronounced sow-in or sau-an), which is derived from Old Irish and means roughly “summer’s end”. For me, it’s the appeal of finding those extra pair of werewolf feet from a pound store, it’s rekindles my earliest memories of watching Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby, running stage right from a Blue Peter made ghoul.
The season always brings out the terrible horror flicks, and the Hammer House of Horrors still gets me diving behind the sofa.
I’ve always enjoyed the way we scare ourselves with what amounts to our chassis, the skeleton. Hang a few of them around the house, don’t dust for a few months, and do your best at dissecting a pumpkin, and hey voila!
A recent visit to PAD London, brought me to meet Italian artist Antonio Cagianelli, whose oversized skulls were a reminder of our fascination with death and the symbols we annually decorate our environment with at this time of year.
Antonio tells me, his current project involves, transferring his own three-dimensional creations by using the language of marginality and fragility of young metropolitan communities, Trick or treat anyone?
More info on Antonio:here
Phil runs Corridor with Christian Inkpen more info here:seecorridor.blogspot.com/
Tags: Antonio Cagianelli, Corridor, Halloween Design, PAD London, Phil Nutley, Skulls
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you’re right… doesn’t matter what age, we love the feeling of being scared.
my daughter loves it when I pretend to be a monster and run around the house after her, but now she keeps seeing ‘monsters’ everywhere.
I watched ‘drag me to hell’ last night on my own, old-skool horror, I admit I did pause the video to look around the room at one point – but I loved it. doesn’t help that I live in a converted chapel!
so, this weekend, do we hollow out a pumpkin and carve a crazy face out of it – probably.
love this sculpture!