The nifty thing about monsters is they can take any form we can imagine. This may be what drew me to the stunning works of Sandeep “Sans” Karunakaran, a self-proclaimed “art psycho” with a carefully curated collection of things that go bump in the night.
They’re all technically impressive, blending sci-fi, horror and dark fantasy with a diverse cast of frightening faces, face-like surfaces and the odd gaping maw where a face should be. The wild variations in scale immediately stand out, and so do the colors.
Sans makes the most of his bleak, post-apocalyptic color palette by conserving the more vibrant bits, turning them into focal points for each piece. This is art that feels more like a lost photograph, a window to a withered world that begs to be explored, if only so we can understand why the child’s ghost pirouettes silently in a cold hallway, or if the impossibly huge creature with crimson eyes is going to eat that train, or just the people inside it.
For more of Sans’ work, check out his gallery.
