Yes, indeed. We have an understanding in this.Nefastos wrote: In art that is not trying to be dark, that beautiful nightly feeling can present itself; but it one tries to be Mr. sinister grimdark, that will almost never work. The true creative spirit has already fled in that forced separation of those which are only seeming opposites.
It's not even uncommon these days for people to think that dark side aesthetics (or even religion/philosophy) can be made independently from the "white light" side. But that won't work, because the world isn't truly dualistic, but both of these are just in our minds as human beings, and we can sense things only by sublime contrasts. There are no angels whom many people wouldn't see as demons, and no devil that isn't some good aspect of God gotten out of check by its followers.[/color]
I've sometimes had BM-bands approach me, asking me to draw them a "really fucking evil album cover" (pardon my vulgar choice of words there). This has, without exception been the usual phallic-goat-raping-a-nun-in-darkness kind of imagery, and obviously I've to turn this kind of things down.
I also agree with Benemal- a pentagram doesn't make the illustration / artwork occult. For me, the effect is often completely opposite when such symbols are placed in a work without any further thought or knowledge of them. It makes the art pretentious, impossible, frustrating to look at.
No no, it's much better to save one's face and to use a entirely different symbol and self-made language! In this way no one can ever claim one is wrong
I'll comment on the blood sacrifice thing later, and here' s a good synchronism as I was just two days ago pondering if to comment on the "blood sacrifice"-thread, asking what are peoples' ideas of this within SOA.
Great!