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Animals collide with awkward lonely strangers.
Aliens stand stiff and speechless.
Drunken Mermen join in isolated merriment.

To strike the proverbial emotional chord from a billion miles away, or so close the object of affection cries solid blue tears and a waxy build up of rainbows, or maybe alien seduction and corruption competes for our attention. These artists share a bitter tenderness in ways The Bruise Team thought not only poignant but funny and fantastical. It is a fine tight-rope to walk upon, like animal magnetisim, a violent car crash, a greased pig, or unrequited love these artists know what it means to touch a nerve. We are happy to present to you this charming collection of purely polluted heart-rending joy.

Matthew Feyld

Matthew's work creates an on going narrative, often drawn from real events, and experiences leaving alot of room for interpretation. Pens, paper, watercolor, and acrlyics are some of the tools usedto create the scenes from a world where both human, and animal share more than just their boots.

Michael Hsiung

In my work, I illustrate my own imaginative world, a place where creatures of fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and lullabies, which are a part of our childhood and adult culture, interact - be it warring or not.My work addresses gender roles/gender assignment given to mermen, the fragility of unicorn/panda dynamics, domestic violence between centaurs and unitaurs and the underlying threads of violence and danger that underpin all other-worldly societies.These themes are often combined with humor commonly used by those in dysfunctional relationships. My drawings, primarily white and black, feature the color red and sometimes green because I have limited abilities to establish a dream-like surreal quality or suggest any notions of purity and safety that would unify any art. The titles provide clues to content and interpretation, but they are generally misleading.

Leo Hillier

LEO is an Illustrator/Artist from Cambridgeshire, UK. Half of the time his brain lives under the sea, and the other half at a microscopic level. He can also see inside creatures and the lovely organ systems they have. He draws with pencil or pen and then uses a fancy adding machine to create images.

Don Porcella

Drawing from his own imagery of the suburban, and his interest in folk art, cartoons, and science fiction, Porcella’s work allows the subjective and strange to penetrate humorous representations of a wildly imaginative reality. Porcella’s unique approach of “dripping” the ancient medium of encaustic reinforces the significance of life’s blunders presenting a mysterious world that is shamelessly awkward and unabashedly comical.Porcella also creates whimsical and subversive sculptures. Some of these sculptures are made out of styrofoam, wood and encaustic while others are made from pipe cleaners. The building and craft materials are taken to a high art form as the content and structure play with our concept of consumerism, reality and our own weird mortality.

Bonus

I am a 25 years old illustrator from "jeanspezial" (a french illustrator group), living in bordeaux..my principal purpose is having fun.. i try to treat society subject or sacred themes with a simplest style as possible to present my images as paradoxal and funny. I use all types of medium, principaly the computer which allows my searches to become more interesting and faster than on paper and allows my process to be more instinctual...