#que terror

acho que nunca estive nem na mesma rua de um motel, imagina dentro de um kkkkkkkk

Ofidiofobia.

I've been busy working on the next Que Terror release entitled la noche (the night). 

I'm halfway through what should be an 8-10 piece series of designs following the tale of a group of children who are kidnapped by the night. The night changes from a formless, monstrous negative-space into something eerily real that throws these children into a different world. I'm delving again into the idea that what we find terrifying is not what we should fear. These children at first appear to be under attack, their world is utterly besieged by the night. They try to flee from the night's grasp yet it proves to be too relentless and they are caught and dragged away.Yet the children are in fact saved by the night and lifted up from the true terror they were facing, the infectious banality of the city and safety. This story has been floating around in my head for some time, albeit in bits and pieces. Endless nights exploring Sydney streets, taking in the beers, the people and the glow of street light's filled my head with a lot of dark ideas. It took a bit of creative writing in my spanish class to stitch it all together. I hadn't done any story writing for years when my spanish teacher, a unique women from Madrid with an utterly twisted sense of humour, encouraged me to keep writing stranger and stranger and stranger stories. Trying to right a story in my second language forced a beautiful simplicity onto what I wrote. Eventually la noche was born. The visuals have been coming together ever since. I'm illustrating the whole line myself once again. I'm pushing the hand-drawn and illustrated feel of the first line even further, incorporating my original pencil work right into the finished designs. I'm also colouring everything more lusciously. I want it to look like an old lost children's book.  I'm still working on how exactly I'll make this work on fabric.  The story and visuals have also inspired me to launch everything off with an art exhibition, art on walls, before unleashing my new line of tees and hoodies, art with legs and arms. The new line will also involve a re-imaging of the Que Terror logo and site, I can't help but treat it all like one big artwork.

I won't lie, it's been taking a lot longer than I'd like for this all to come together. In between managing real life, a day job, a long distance amor, and my constant need to get lost in the world out there I've managed to slowly piece it all together. So if you can be patient I'd love to show you some of my new work very soon.

Yours In Terror,