Satans Bride!!! By Neckface KAWS 2005 Remember "the night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind"? Well, the kid inside Neck Face, comparably, went on to lurk and lark through urban grit worldwide with spray-paint can handy for the ride. Call me a bit nostalgic, but Neck Face is the metropolized 21 st Century version of the puckish boy sensorizing his vagrant escapade into the jungle of fuzzy ogres in Maurice Sendak's 1963 classic (and most memorable) children's book, Where the Wild Things Are . Setting and circumstances aside, Neck Face is that kid - he put on the wolf suit - only here, his comes with a hideous mask to help the predation and abscond from the police, evil eyes flaring, as death - rockin' briefs and pointy horns - comes knocking on the door. As dreadful and disturbing the figures in Neck Face's pictography can be, this artist is far from being a somber cliché death freak making naïve scribbles in the dark. Look at the exclamation marks in his book's title, Satans Bride!!! - a highly limited edition (only 2000 copies in print) compiling select artworks and shots of Neck Face's crudely scripted tags ("Neck Face is ugly!!") and massive drawings of spiky-haired and elongated arms or menacing, wing-spread bat creatures. He's hardly saying, 'Yeah, the devil made me do it' on some bullshit goth-dark seriousness. Neck Face goes for a playful, absurdist approach, making his work somewhat endearing after soaking in the blood and hell of the mind's capricious monsters and demons (keep in mind, this is a world where babies get brutally stabbed by a werewolf-headed mutant in heels and pantyhose for "Late Movie Rental Fees"). But don't be afraid of the graf on the wall, a kid's imagination will always run wild. - Omar Sommereyns Back Next