Artist Emma Allen uses the human face and body – often her own – as a canvas for strange, beautiful and often disturbing painted images, many of which seem to pulse and sparkle with life. Naturally, her next major creative step was to bring those images to life literally, through stop-motion animation.
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Shooting over a five-day period using only her paints, a mirror and a camera, the one-minute short film Ruby is Allen's medium for “exploring the idea of rebirth and illustrating the transfer of energy from one incarnation to another.”
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Beginning with untouched features, Allen then adds layers of paint to age herself into a creepy death's-head mask, then undergoes a supernatural rebirth and transformation into a completely new creature.
You can see more of Allen's work at her official site, and at her Facebook page appropriately titled Facepainting.
If you dig surreal, stop-motion horror, be sure to check out the short films of Monica Cook, which are equally amazing... and incredibly disturbing.
