Hollow Skeletons: The Art and Music of Vincent Marcone

I first became acquainted with Vincent Marcone's work from a Macworld show many years ago. I in fact seem to recall it was an image called "Don't You Know How to Fly?" which had a little bird-girl creature climbing up a staircase. It intrigued me. It was this very simple composition, but, as I would soon find out about Marcone's work, it would reveal more and more details the longer one would look at it.

The little harpy girl doesn't seem to have legs; her lowest limbs seem to be part of the wiggly, warped staircase railing. She has no pinions, only little stickly limbs that look more like bird legs than arms or wings. Wisps hover over the image as if there's an imperceptable fog over it.

This was Marcone's older My Pet Skeleton site. I never forgot the music or the images I found there, often going back to check things out a little, see if there was some new art, or maybe see a piece I liked again. The above is but one wallpaper from the site, and I totally encourage you to seek out the rest (in particular a cute little one of ghosts and binary code).

There's a playful macabre style to Marcone's art that drew me to his work. The kind of work that dreams and nightmares are made of, though his images tend to lay on the more nightmare end of things. Sometimes they appear cutesy, other times, like in the image at right called "Twisted Devotion", they seem downright horrifying.