I'll be honest, I haven't the foggiest what this sticker is supposed to be. I didn't even bother trying to look anything up on Google for tonight. This is mainly because I don't even know how I would even try to break this image down into keywords, let alone describe it. But it's an intriguing enough image that I couldn't keep in hidden away in the collection forever. It's one of the few that caught my attention on a regular basis when I would walk home from my job in the Strip District. Every time I came up to this Parking sign I would always look up, trying to deduce what exactly it was I was seeing. So bear with me while I attempt to pull my thoughts together on this and come up with things that this sticker reminds me of.
Starting with the bottom of this image, the first that has always popped in my head was that these legs belonged to a wrestler. Not a WWE wrestler but an Olympic or high school wrestler. Now I've never really had any exposure to wrestling, it was kind of a big thing in my high school but being in the same sports season as swimming I ended up paying it no mind. I really know nothing about the sport but that image of the wrestler is certainly one that gets ingrained. Now I guess it could realistically be any sport, especially since this image seems to be running which isn't involved in wrestling, but there is just something that screams wrestler. Maybe it's just how the sticker has that appearance of a unitard ending mid-thigh, it is one of the few sports I know of that has that particular look. But after that initial feeling of something familiar and well human, this sticker then goes off on it's own bizarre direction. At first I thought it was man getting devoured by a faceless monster but the more I look at it, the more I realize that there is no break in form. The legs do gradually morph into that undefined mass on top. Every once in a while I think I can make out elements of a man within the mass but for the most part it just feels like a blur of line and shape. In many ways it brings to mind the classic depictions of Lovecraft and his night terrors, with their writhing misshaped bodies, the tentacles, and that sense of madness. Along those lines I also think of things like Doom or...well any Guillermo Del Toro movie really, since they clearly draw inspiration from Lovecraft. For me these classic creature design elements can be seen in this image. Although I will admit that this also kind of reminds me a naked mole rat. But either way this nightmarish creature is certainly not something you would want to have come running at you on the street.
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Maggie Ondrey
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