About two days ago a friend sent me this post from a random Spanish Vampire group on FB of these amazing creepy set of puppets... this guy made all the LBC favorites Wednesday, Only Lovers, Bowie, etc. Every comment and description was in Spanish which I am not fluent in so I translated each one and it was always was people talking about the pics or trying to use the post to boost their own inferior projects.
In the end I did a mad search and found out these treasures aren’t completely new but twice as fascinating.... check out some of these pulls from a Vice article from 2017.
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“Inspired by morbid memories and antique funerary rituals, the Handsome Devils are hand-sculpted, incredibly detailed puppets, decorated with spooky ephemera like bones found in a field or fragments of the artist's grandmother's jewelry. In addition to original characters, many of the puppets Han builds are based on iconic horror films or famously mysterious personalities, like Sylvia Plath.”
"Every puppet is clothed and accessorized with items of great meaning. Antique lace, found fabrics, pieces of my late grandmother's jewelry… Every puppet I make is imbued with the power and strangeness of people who walked and left this weird world before them, and that is one of my favorite things about them."
"After a traumatic, life-threatening event in my life, I seemed to lose the ability to process the idea of death and loss. Studying the practice of post-mortem photography and the way they so embraced and normalized the idea of death made me feel a little less like I'd gone crazy. Their use of mourning jewelry containing the hair of the deceased has carried over to my use of trinkets of the deceased and human hair in my puppets," explains Han.
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These things are magnificent and can actually be commissioned and purchased through the Han the artist’s site. However if you still need convincing checkout this companion instagram.
