Since I am organising the Cork city zombie walk at the moment I said that I would add a bit more zombie to my anatomical posts! “Zombie Burlesque” is what happens when self-taught French artist, Angel Roy, decided to combine vintage pinup girl photography with the inexplicable Zombie craze sweeping the nation right now.In a collaboration with Glamorama Studio Photography’s own Mila the two produced a digital art series that is part anatomy, part glamor and definitely part macabre.In a side-by-side display of the original photo alongside the completed digital works of art, the viewer has a broader appreciation of the ‘before and after’ effect.
Using photography as a starting point, Roy uses graphic design as a way of giving more form to the pieces while reinterpreting what he calls ‘the classic codes of the portrait and landscape.’ Roy says, “In my collages graphics, anatomy disrupts the smooth image of the photographed body. I consider the human being, not as individuals but as a machine in motion, and I like to put forward his vital organs, its mechanisms, its branches, its brands, its traces. On this same method of composition (binder photo to graphics) I work the landscape, including that offered by larger cities. I change the architecture, space as I change the human being. The graphics in this case allows me to place the image in a particular context (historical, social, or cultural) or to give a totally imaginary.”
Memento Mori 