“I consider myself an archaeologist of the arcane, a preservationist of the bizarre, a taxidermist of dreams. Humbly, I lay before you all that I have discovered travelling darker and curious byways. The relics I have returned with are evidence—faint echoes of desecrated realms and passions long interred. May they prove the existence of what was wrongly believed the stuff of but fevered imagination only.”
Scot D. Ryersson began his training at the Chelsea School of Art and Design (London) before entering the field of motion picture advertising. Throughout his thirty-year career, living in Sydney, New York, Toronto, and London, he has designed multi-award-winning graphics for numerous major Hollywood and international films, including The Silence of the Lambs, Ghost, The Hunt for Red October, and Witness. Ryersson’s campaigns for Evil Under the Sun and Another Country each garnered him an Art Directors of London Award. His pen-and-ink illustrations have appeared in publications worldwide. Corporate clients include Harrods and Simpsons' department stores, Cellarmaster Wines Ltd, and Forte Hotels. In 2007, he created Arcanifacts, his mixed-media, assemblage pieces, to further explore his artistic obsessions with the arcane and phantasmagorical. In 2010, Ryersson's book jacket design for Anne Brooke's novel A Dangerous Man was nominated for both an Imperial Artisan and a Rainbow Award, and he was commissioned specifically by director/producer John Borowski to create props for his 2012 documentary, Carl Panzram.
Ryersson is also the author of numerous critiques and essays on film and literature. He has published exclusive interviews with author Anne Rice, actress Diana Rigg, Poirot actor David Suchet, and film director Tim Burton; an analysis of the little-known supernatural fiction of Agatha Christie; a thorough career retrospective of and interview with British horror writer R. Chetwynd-Hayes; a cover-story on the life and work of German screen icon Brigitte Helm, star of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927); as well as the novellas Poisoned Ivy, The Arsenic Flower, andMad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know, and the 1PFR award nominated short story, Summer's Lease. His poetry has appeared in TheNew Yorker. With Michael Orlando Yaccarino, Ryersson is co-author of the internationally best-selling biography Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati and a play based upon it; the decadent fairy tale The Princess of Wax: A Cruel Tale; and most recently The Marchesa Casati: Portraits of a Muse.
Visit the official Marchesa Casati site linked above to learn more.
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A concept that totally blows me away, and at the same time infuriates me because I didn't think of it first...
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