Bleeding talent from every pore

Tortured Artists are legend and the glamourisation of their creative mind spilling their unusually flavoured guts all over the face of their art is how they make their name and money.

I am not talking about the self-appointed sketchers but the honest to goodness talent that makes you weep; that compels you to forfeit a sum of money specifically to own a piece of this brilliance.

We’ve always expected a lot of the creative geniuses to be a bit off kilter and they have not disappointed. Crazy takes on a whole new meaning with some of the inventions that have been surfacing.

Take the instance of a UK artist who has this idea of growing your own furniture. This is a collection of trees that you plant in your very own backyard and harvest after about five years to make a collection of two or three bar-stool look-alikes.

Tame stuff if you consider the rise of blood art. This life force is not just the source of human life, but apparently, can be used to paint. Pints can be extracted from your very own hallowed chambers and preserved through refrigeration or it could be the remnants of your wife’s birth mixed with your infants.

If you thought the almost sainted Angelina Jolie’s peculiar matching blood vial to her then husbands was disturbing, you need to see some of these obvious indicators of coming unhinged.

Health risks

Art made out of human blood bears not just ethical questions but health risks, potential disgust, fear and a considerable degree of panic for anyone who prefers a conservative stand point. It does not exactly seem inspired by complex images because the very nature of this fluid is that it changes colour, texture and consistency.

It is also rather limiting because how much of it can you use up anyway without collapsing from a need to replenish not just the mental fatigue, but the physical as well.

Besides which, it really is not something any doctor, including the most avant-garde of psychiatrists, would recommend as a way of you to get in touch with your incredibly bizarre inner child.

Still, this has barely stopped artists from returning to the drawing board with a new lease of life so to speak. A lot of these creations move beyond what could pass for blood splatter. They are not entirely simplistic.

There are masks made out of frozen blood that require a very particular intervention of science to make it possible to display. Though there are a few mouldings made out of a 3D splatter that can be shipped to you if you so wish. (The new blood art comes from a baby, menstrual blood for that inspired stroke that creates a period piece.)

The themes naturally evolve around a celebration of womanhood and fertility. To channel extra bold strokes of creativity water and coloured pencils may be used in addition to henna perhaps for an edge in the colour.

Labeled as ‘subversive uterine art’ by a blogger, there is an entire collection of fans who are highly appreciative of this expression form.

In case you worry about this as unsanitary, there is a degree of disinfection involved and a lot of idea-sharing on how to do it. Flavia Narvasadata of Moscow has an official website and has racked up considerable attention and a little money out of her work.