JESSE BERLIN has found a way to make emotional pain manifest in a physical world of distortion, gore, horror, and misery. When I look at his sculptures, I don’t feel like he’s creating such disturbing characters to invoke terror in the viewer, although they definitely do. Instead, I feel like each of his pieces asks us to look deeper into the inner world of the subject. Their melancholic eyes, their contorted expressions, their deformed bodies all tell a story of loss, grief, anger, helplessness, fear, depression, greed. Berlin makes functional sculptures as well, offering stunning and original sconces, planters, jars, and more on his Dark Art Movement page. Check out some of my favorite pieces from JESSE BERLIN here:
