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Download hr giger batmobile8/29/2023 The lamps were always a bluish dark, so the planes would not bomb us. I was born in 1940 so I could feel the atmosphere when my parents were afraid. It came partly from Chur where I grew up partly from the war. Your work comes from a much darker place than Beckett or Wallace?ĭarker, yes. I started with Edgar Wallace and then all sorts of Western writers. What other writers were an inspiration for you?Ĭrime writers especially. They were some of the very few colored paintings I’ve done. I made paintings as a homage to Samuel Beckett. Beckett was very much an inspiration for me. I have read so many things that have inspired me. The inspiration is mostly from literature actually. You’ve said before that much of the inspiration for your art comes from dreams, and more specifically nightmares?Įveryone always wants to know about my dreams. LSD is still forbidden, so it’s not good to talk about those things. What could I say? He was a very intelligent man with a lot of knowledge and I’m, well, I’m just an artist.Īh, you know you can’t talk about that on record. The night before the interview, Giger had overdone it at the dinner table. He goes to bed at 5 AM and wakes at noon. When he sketches, he still likes to draw strange alien figures with hefty packages pinning fragile looking ladies to the floor, but his days of nightmarish visions and brutal hallucinations are over. He divides his time between a castle in the Alps and his house in Zurich where he has a little train track running round the garden and right through the kitchen. Giger’s side is painted black from floor to ceiling Carmen’s, one assumes, ain’t so bad. Giger punched a hole through the wall to join the buildings. He potters around the garden, mumbles to the cat, drops himself in front of the tube for the afternoon, and cracks open a bottle whenever he feels like it. Loathed by feminists and obscenity sticklers, Giger, the one-time king of darkness and the person Ridley Scott confessed to being petrified of meeting, is now no more scary than a grumpy old neighbor.
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