Some might find the characters and textures featured in artist Matthew Osmon’s work to be a little bit unsettling. His recent multimedia pieces are full of goopy, stringy textures, parasitic creatures, and expressionless faces floating in liminal spaces.
One particularly spooky piece features a woman wrapped in a sticky-looking cocoon full of holes. The cocoon trails off into a nearby lake, and the sky isn’t exactly dark, but instead an apocalyptic brown. With her gaze fixed somewhere out-of-frame, the woman looks paranoid, sure, but also slightly annoyed – like someone has stuck her somewhere she’d rather not be.
Turns out that’s more than a little true. The subject of the piece? Osmons’ wife.
“I kind of always am trying to push myself to not be dark all the time,” Osmon said. “It’s the only picture I’ve really painted of my…
