Having a blast, having a beer at Artcrank; Coralette Damne's Speed Demons
By IASP.
Confession time. I was drunk when I made it to the Artcrank fest, a wonderful collection of graphic art around biking. A thousand-dollar idea, you may ask. Don't get too excited. To set also an Octoberfest before the Artcrank event was like a trap for unconcerned travelers as me. I just wanted to enjoy some art without getting wasted! I cannot write a full recount of events of that day, but Coralette Damne's art is one of the few things I kept.
Coralette Damne's Speed Demons features two friendly-face ghosts apparently haunting a full-speed vintage bike. The work was commissioned to be shown at the Artcrank. My first thought led me to Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, more specifically, the no-face man, a lonely spirit that gains personality and physical traits by ingesting other individuals; in this case, a bike. I wonder. Yet, Coralette's Speed Demons art piece does not need to eat anything because those demons embody her work and presence.
After looking at Coralette's work, I grasped what caught my attention at the Artcrank fest. This sense of the wonder of nature through a lens of folk tales and traditions being a strong pattern in Speed Demons and the rest of her work (some deliberately, as it's part of her artist statement). It was really Coralette's presence haunting bikes that day. In comparison, I felt nothing with some of the art pieces I saw that day, which was a surprise for me because I am a self-proclaimed biker.
Picture retrieved from Coralette Damne's website (see below)
I really like her use of ink -by the way, it's almost time for inktober- and folk themes. Black and white patterns. Her style is cute and brings us closer to that unknown and mysterious nature that inspires terror but amazing histories around bonfires. Just by going from page to page, I can see that it's her thing, someone that she is mastering in a delightful and imaginative manner.
If you liked Coralette Damne's artwork, you can visit her website at www.craftyhag.com.
Two speed-freak demons hold the brakes
of my two-wheel bike tonight
This may be the last ride
Riding with wolves for the last time
Three speed-freak demons hold your brakes
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