henry darger

Side A: Are enabled to get away as storm starts
Better known now because of a documentary on his life which has been nominated for an oscar - 'In the Realms of the Unreal' directed by Jessica Yu. Darger's images are exceptionally strange and evocative of children's story books. His visual style is easily copied but the huge background of writing and stories which go with it is very powerful, disturbing even. The drawings remind me of illustrations of children and pixies my grandmother used to do for DC Thompsons in the twenties, but Darger's images are weird in a way I don't think she could even have imagined!

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