The giant wool and foam needle-felted masks of Pennsylvania-based British artist Paolo Del Toro – mythical faces with expressions varying from vacant serenity to horror, reminiscent of Japanese Noh theatre masks. Del Toro describes his work thus:
I try to find a place in my sculptures that unifies beauty and ugliness. That’s not to say finding somewhere in the middle, but rather finding the place where both coexist at the same time…
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Imagine waking up with that third one looking back at you…
it’s the wee eager pokey out tounge that does it
I’m not sure that he’s unified beauty and ugliness, to be honest.
Same goes for me: enough grotesquerie in the world.
Ah Neilo, brother barnabas’ side of the side barely cold and you’re making your move….
I’m not ‘inside baseball’ enough to catch the reference – did BB share my trademarked blend of misanthropy, bonhomie and appalling wordplay?
He was the thinking woman’s Fred West.
Gotcha, boss.
Hang the fupp on. Are you saying I’m Rosemary West?
My gast is flabbered.
Dominic West I meant.
Which makes you Ruth Wilson.
Which is wonderful.
*preens*
She’s ginger, isn’t she?! She was excellent in Luther.
Yeah she’s brilliant and utterly gorgeous.
I love her. She’s an amazing actress.
Fell in love with her portrayal of Jane Eyre opposite Toby Stevens. She was the very epitome of Jane.
I’m currently watching Victoria purely for Jenna Coleman.
I’m *that* shallow.
I now read and say “epitome” as my mate said it (incorrectly on purpose) without a whit of irony. eppy-tome
As a young man I may or may not said the word “hyperbowl” in error.
Repeatedly.
I know it’s old hat but wouldn’t herself and Michelle Monaghan make a great set of fraternal(?) twins in a film that will only ever appear in my, ah, downstairs brain.
@Mildred: I adore Toby Stephens. I will watch him in anything, even the new Lost In Space thingy.
Pronouncing it hyperbowl goes back to the days of Doug and Dinsdale Piranha, Bertie. It’s a mispronunciation with provenance.
Gas! I looked up that Ethel the Frog thing when I explained to Mildred what I’d done to Brother Barnabas (nailed his head to the coffee table). That’s my favourite MP sketch.
“He was a cruel man, but fair.” “In a fit of pique, he napalmed Cheltenham”.
I quote from it a lot, and nobody ever gets it. Sigh.
@Andy etc: I’m a middle-aged man. That shiz is in my DNA.
As the dance judges said to Marty…..
Heh. Poor ole Marty.