Welcome Fellow Fleshsuits!
When do I become human if I’m constantly policing myself to fit within the performance of societal expectations? Why do I find agony within the pull of strings if the hands in control were never going to cut me down anyways?
My work serves as anti-government propaganda, exaggerating pre-existing conditions of the system we were born into and examining our external and internal surveillance. I’m interested in displays of control through power and the way a tilt of the hand can impact us down the corporate and social chains. So often those who hold the leash let their heads get away from themselves, so I’ve conjured a world where long neck men roam as pillars of militarized force. Through this lens, I navigate my own relationship between nihilism and existentialism and where we fall through the cracks.
How can we tell we were ever really human at all?
Casandra Cyr graduated from University of Hartford in 2022 with a degree in Illustration and Painting. They’ve always gravitated towards the peculiar and their style evolved from face-value horror to the lingering dread trepidation brings. She has always had a profound love for books and has started to draft her own horror fiction publications inspired by favorites such as Junji Ito, The Magnus Archives, and Welcome to Nightvale.
