Good Girl
She Contains Multitudes
As long as there have been vampires, there have been artists who dared to capture, in ink and oil and marble, the visages which prove so elusive to mirrors.
There are paintings of gruesome vampires. There are sculptures of frightening vampires. And there are oh so many drawings of seductive vampires.
In the fullness of time the human artistic ability to render these befanged monsters has gotten good. Very good. Dangerously good.
In classrooms on ethics and in smoky rooms full of defense contractors, some people have even whispered, “Have we become . . . too good?”
At the forefront of this ethical debate is Justin O’Neal. His uncanny skills have reached the point where he almost broke the Internet drawing, not vampires, but merely vampire mouths.
We thus understood the risk we were taking when we asked him to render the first lady of vampires, Lucy.
We apologize. It’s too late now to warn you that you might not want to look at the image above. Sorry.
You have now seen the unspeakable, the incredible portrait he made of Coil as Lucy. It captures the myriad selves who live beneath that pale skin, and shows the duality of demure innocence and unimaginable rage.
We hope that you enjoy it as much as we do.
There are paintings of gruesome vampires. There are sculptures of frightening vampires. And there are oh so many drawings of seductive vampires.
In the fullness of time the human artistic ability to render these befanged monsters has gotten good. Very good. Dangerously good.
In classrooms on ethics and in smoky rooms full of defense contractors, some people have even whispered, “Have we become . . . too good?”
At the forefront of this ethical debate is Justin O’Neal. His uncanny skills have reached the point where he almost broke the Internet drawing, not vampires, but merely vampire mouths.
We thus understood the risk we were taking when we asked him to render the first lady of vampires, Lucy.
We apologize. It’s too late now to warn you that you might not want to look at the image above. Sorry.
You have now seen the unspeakable, the incredible portrait he made of Coil as Lucy. It captures the myriad selves who live beneath that pale skin, and shows the duality of demure innocence and unimaginable rage.
We hope that you enjoy it as much as we do.
