First featured in HF Vol 34, artist Click Mort takes vintage ceramic figurines and “recapitates” them into whimsical characters spawned from his imagination. In his latest series on view at La Luze de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, the artist takes influences from his own dreams and nightmares. His exhibition “Delirium Tremens” is named after a psychotic condition typical of withdrawal in chronic alcoholics, which often involves hallucinations. Considering this, while his works are infused with nostalgia and humor, one cannot ignore a certain melancholy in them. Seamlessly transfigured, the exhibit features once-innocent figures such as 1930s Hummels and Norman Rockwell collectibles turned into a surreal cast of characters. Click Mort creates each piece using a process of extensive cutting, sculpting, sanding, and painting. The results are whimsical and sometimes nightmarish, portraying cute bunnies playing with toy blocks to a snarling panther representing St. Faustina, Patron Saint of Merciful Deaths. Take a look at more of Click Mort’s latest kitschy figures below.
“Delirium Tremens” by Click Mort is now on view at La Luz de Jesus Gallery through August 2nd.
For years, 
The remixed and altered porcelain sculptures of ceramicist Penny Byrne often have a political edge. Byrne's methods recall the methods of Barnaby Barford and the late Click Mort. She uses enamel paints, epoxy resin, putty, and other materials to evolve these found statues.
Kyoto based artist 
Masaya Hashimoto's images of pure white plants might not look like anything remarkable until you realize what they are made out of: the self taught artist crafts them out of the fine bone and antlers from deer near his home in Japan. In some ways, his sculptures are a byproduct of where he lived for nearly a decade, a mountain Buddhist temple where he was given the chance to closely observe the life cycle of plants and flowers like irises and chrysanthemums.