Ashley presents Travis Louie

I came across this artist the other day and while he is not a photographer his works are greatly based on photography and in that we can draw inspiration. His images are all black and white and gray all over and they are all of monsters and I do just adore the monster art. Anyway back to the topic at hand, the thing that I think that most intrigues me about his work is not just the imagery itself but also the fact that each creature/monster has a back story. For example one of his more recent creatures 'Ethel.'

Ethel

According to the myth, she rose out of the sea at low tide to look for a man sometime in the 1880’s. It is said she was part jellyfish because of her transparent appearance and spindly hair. She attracted her possible suitors by giving off the scent of fine food and liquor. When the men she wooed were not to her liking, she stung them with her tentacle hair. The stings were said to induce paralysis and memory loss. In one of the stories, she even turned a man into a jellyfish.

There have been many sightings of a woman levitating out of the surf with a flowing white dress along the Eastern seaboard. Most of those reports have taken place during seaside town festivals, usually in the evening, and involving much drinking.