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H. R. Giger
Swiss
Artist
About the author
You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?
H. R. Giger,
Swiss
Artist
#Work
#Funny
#Cards
No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
H. R. Giger,
Swiss
Artist
#Work
Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.
H. R. Giger,
Swiss
Artist
#People
#Work
#Death
#Blood
Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
H. R. Giger,
Swiss
Artist
#People
#World
#Ideas
#Future
#Reality
There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
H. R. Giger,
Swiss
Artist
#Hope
#Beauty
You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.
H. R. Giger,
Swiss
Artist
#Mystery
You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.
H. R. Giger,
Swiss
Artist
#Now
#Fantasy
#Funny
I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?
H. R. Giger,
Swiss
Artist