Chris Tianto, aka Goathead, holds it down for CVLT Nation in Southeast Asia from his native Indonesia, bringing us a point of view from one of the hubs of metal culture on the other side of the world. He is a purveyor of dark art, in the form of digital photomanipulation and collage. While Goathead’s medium may be digital, his building blocks are analog and Polaroid photography. His work has an emerging quality to it – the images seem to be rising from the page as you look at them, like dark apparitions appearing on weathered book pages, stained concrete walls or rusty metal sheeting in a barrio somewhere. The textured canvas is as much a part of the images as the subject on it, and lends an atmosphere of sinister antiquity to his work. It almost seems like I am looking at stills from a really disturbing turn of the century film – something that was hidden away to collect dust and scratches, only to be pulled out of some shameful, secretive past. One of the pieces that speaks to me is his Death’s Head moth priest, standing on a pile of human bones. The priest smiles out at you from behind the dirty window of time, and the realism of the image makes it seem as if he is looking into your soul. After the jump, explore the parallel universe created by Goathead through a collection of his works…
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