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Grim Fairytales

Grim Holliday

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Grim Fairytales is installed as a zine in the Library.

Grim Fairytales is a small art zine, inspired by Grim’s love of fairytales, folktales, the occult, and the motifs and aesthetic traditions associated with them. The zine features artwork with themes which may feel familiar to viewers, but in the fine details they stray from many traditional stories. It has three, two-page spreads, and four single-page illustrations.

The artwork is all digital, created over the course of three years.

Art: An apple, which is covered in liquid / molten gold that is dripping off of it. Above the apple, in slightly carnival-esque text, it says "GRIM", and below the apple in thin, looping writing it says "fairytales".
Art: drawing of a figure with hummingbird wings and bug wings which are strapped on with a harness. They carry a sword by the blade, and have arrows piercing their chest and arm. A death's head moth covers their eyes.
Art: A cat is crouched next to a pond or river, next to long grass. The water is slightly abstracted, curving past the cat's tail, full of fish. There is also a skull at the bottom of the water, and gingko leaves in the wind. In the corners are a geometric sun and moon motif.
Art: Drawing of a woman in a vaguely medieval or renaissance dress with long, flowing blonde hair. The hair billows, and almost looks like clouds around a medieval tower with a teal roof.
Art: Two half circles, one side is a drawing of a delta system with farmland around it. The other side lines up with the rivers, but turns into a three-headed snake, with a background of the "flower of life" pattern. Text in front says "Indefatigable".

To see the full zine, view the PDF here, or visit The Show on campus.

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Grim is a 27 year old illustrator and writer, currently working in the Pacific Northwest. They have a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University.

They work to explore the relationship that they have with their upbringing in two different families — one where conservative, baptist christian, and dominant hegemonies were the norm, and one where those ideas were frequently challenged. They are also influenced by having been raised by nurses, where the visceral and disgusting were dinner conversations. Gender identity, ideas of manhood, and what it means to be transsexual is ever-present in their work, and all of these themes combine in works that are violent and ideally challenging in the ways that they explore the visceral body.

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