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Dark Experiences (Ebook)
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Enter a world where mystery and darkness converge in twenty story fragments, each conveyed through a phrase and an evocative illustration. Each fragment serves as a visual and textual riddle that offers no answers but instead invites the reader to explore personal and intimate meanings. The illustrations and phrases intertwine in unexpected ways, challenging the conventional and opening doors to individual daydreams.
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“As much as a feeling of fear and horror is evoked, I want to keep looking and seeing every detail. It's an arresting beauty, even if it's something scary.”
— Fram Alencar
The beauty and mystery of the dark arts with open interpretation
Faced with a dark work of art with open interpretation, our brain strives to decipher each enigmatic element. It's as if we were solving an existential puzzle. This ambiguity in dark arts reflects the uncertainty of our own reality. It trains us to deal with the unknown, taking us out of our comfort zone and forcing us to question our perceptions. In this discomfort, we often find surprising revelations about ourselves and the world.
When confronting unsettling images or disturbing stories, we face our own fears in a controlled and even pleasurable way. It's a safe playground for our imagination to explore the darkest corners of the human psyche.
In a world saturated with information, dark and ambiguous art gives us the valuable opportunity to elaborate our own ideas, projecting a bit of ourselves into what we are seeing.
In the end, perhaps the true appeal of dark arts with open interpretation is to remind us that not everything needs to have a clear explanation. They teach us to find beauty in mystery and to embrace the shadows as an integral part of the human experience. Consuming this type of art is like taking a journey into the unknown without leaving your place. It's looking into the abyss and realizing that it also observes us, making us feel more alive and connected to the depths of human existence.
What people are saying
“Dark Experiences is undoubtedly an innovative idea. It's as if the author were leading the reader through an art exhibition, discreetly sharing his impressions. The ironic and suggestive phrases not only complement the stunning drawings, but also invite the viewer to sharpen their gaze and question. It's not a book to be viewed in an inattentive, hurried manner; you have to immerse yourself in the illustrations, fill in the gaps and weave your own story.”
— Lucas Klitzke
“More than a picture book, Dark Experiences is a laboratory for experiencing horror, anguish, melancholy and, perhaps, acceptance.
The author's style brings beauty to horror, which grips us in the most agonizing part and allows us to expand the story told.”
— Fram Alencar
“In Dark Experiences, Glauco unveils a universe that is both sensitive and frightening. His illustrations, beautiful and sinister, attract us at the same time as they ignite the irrational warning of danger. This feeling always leads us to unknown and forbidden places, so be careful...”
— Benson Chin
"Dark Experiences is a narrow opening that allows us to probe worlds to which we have not been invited. Suggestive and disconcerting, the work creates, in its play of light and shadows, ambiguous textures, sensations and emotions, which come together in a dreamlike (ir)reality. In this labyrinth of meanings, the fragmentary texts that accompany the book's images will act as flickering candles that both point and distort the path through the dark corridors created by Glauco. Now, it's worth preparing the ideal atmosphere to face this journey: silence, solitude and twilight. At the moment when the fleeting shadows play tricks on us in the corners of the house and the noises in the kitchen denounce the imps of our imagination, reading Dark Experiences fulfills the promise of the title and we are swept up in the mysteries that the work hides in its traces."
— Pedro Sasse, writer and PhD in literature
"From the very first image, Dark Experiences summons us to an inner immersion, to a walk through the intimate and familiar shadows that inhabit our unconscious, which we often pretend don't exist, as if only light springs from us. But this excessive clarity can also enchant and blind us, just as darkness can bring tender comfort, as Glauco shows in an impactful way through his beautiful illustrations. It's a book that bothers and fascinates, that makes us wonder about ourselves and our ways of feeling and living, bringing welcome reflections. But before you enter GlaucoVerso, ask yourself: Are you sure?"
— George Amaral, psychoanalyst and writer.
“This production is an aesthetic experience that invites us to sit in an imaginary chair and dwell on disturbing elements... the kind that are in the back of our minds and that we often can't name on our own. The images smile at us, hit us in the face and reveal the most perverse dimensions of the human being, as well as showing that pleasure is a common thread in some of the pains we carry.”
— Tamires Lima, psychologist
I absolutely loved the book! The captions contribute to the illustrations perfectly and elaborate the message. What I enjoyed most is how my imagination was stimulated - the image and caption were only a hint, a glance but I immediately was able to see the whole story! You're a great artist and inspiration!