ludismos macabrojos

Macabre Luddisms is a series of surreal character portraits that merge mechanical nostalgia with existential tension. Each figure, a one-eyed automaton, half circus performer, half puppet, emerges from a playful yet unsettling universe. With top hats, wheels, gears, and hollow gazes, these beings evoke a silent theatre of tragic humor.

 

The series explores the line between whimsy and despair, where each character becomes a poetic metaphor for emotional survival. They embody the fragility of memory, the performative nature of identity, and the unsettling charm of malfunctioning innocence. Macabre Luddisms pays homage to vintage toys, early animation, and visual absurdism, while projecting a deeply personal mythology of the self as spectacle.

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In this universe, the gaze is mechanical but never cold; it's charged with longing, irony, and symbolic solitude. The viewer is invited into a space where laughter and unease coexist, and where each figure stares back, as if performing just for you, for a painful and lost childhood.