Look Away

Lindsay Meisel bio ↓ · April 22nd, 2009 · filed under art

Daikichi Amano is interested in icky, slimy, and gooey. His creepy–even disgusting–photographs depict supple young bodies marred by subterranean decay at the mouths of leeches and the tentacles of cephalopods (which, according to one interview, the crew eats after the shoot to avoid the cruelty of wasting the animals). There is an overall sense of clamminess; Amano’s artistic roots are in pornography, but these images are the opposite of inviting. And yet I can’t look away.

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After mastering the arts of tractor driving and compost tea brewing, Lindsay Meisel left her bucolic paradise for the real world, where she spends most of her time on the Internet, writing about being a young and nubile twenty-something. More from this author →

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