This Artist’s Sculptures Are Quite Disturbing. This is What Nightmares Look Like.

Monica Piloni is a Brazilian artist whose work might just be the creepiest thing you see all day. Piloni’s sculptures are visceral and shocking in the best sense of the words. Her art is on a whole new level, and she isn’t afraid to push the boundaries of what’s acceptable.

We put together a few of her best pieces for you to check out. Just wait until you get down to #9. It might give you nightmares.

    <p>1.) This piece from 2012 is called "&Oacute;pio," and it's really disturbing.</p>                                                        <img class="articleimg" src="http://images.viralnova.com/000/088/429/desktop-1414690370.jpg" width="650" alt="1.) This piece from 2012 is called &quot;&Oacute;pio,&quot; and it's really disturbing." />                                                                               <a class="social-share"><img src="/images/share.png" alt="share" /> </a>                                    <a href="#" class="facebook addthis_button_facebook" style="float:none"></a>                    <a href="#" class="twitter addthis_button_twitter"></a>                 <a href="#" class="pinterest addthis_button_pinterest_share"></a>                   <a href="#" class="addthis_button_google_plusone google"></a>                                                                                   <a href="http://asylum-art.tumblr.com/post/101251100745" target="_blank">Monica Piloni</a>                                              <p>2.) I'm pretty sure I've had nightmares that look like this.</p>                                                     <img class="articleimg" src="http://images.viralnova.com/000/088/427/desktop-1414690369.jpg" width="650" alt="2.) I'm pretty sure I've had nightmares that look like this." />                                                                              <a class="social-share"><img src="/images/share.png" alt="share" /> </a>                                    <a href="#" class="facebook addthis_button_facebook" style="float:none"></a>                    <a href="#" class="twitter addthis_button_twitter"></a>                 <a href="#" class="pinterest addthis_button_pinterest_share"></a>                   <a href="#" class="addthis_button_google_plusone google"></a>                                                                                   <a href="http://asylum-art.tumblr.com/post/101251100745" target="_blank">Monica Piloni</a>                                              <p>3.) What exactly is supposed to be happening here?</p>                                                       <img class="articleimg" src="http://images.viralnova.com/000/088/426/desktop-1414690369.jpg" width="650" alt="3.) What exactly is supposed to be happening here?" />                                                                                <a class="social-share"><img src="/images/share.png" alt="share" /> </a>                                    <a href="#" class="facebook addthis_button_facebook" style="float:none"></a>                    <a href="#" class="twitter addthis_button_twitter"></a>                 <a href="#" class="pinterest addthis_button_pinterest_share"></a>                   <a href="#" class="addthis_button_google_plusone google"></a>                                                                                   <a href="http://asylum-art.tumblr.com/post/101251100745" target="_blank">Monica Piloni</a>                                                          <p>4.) This piece also incorporates synthetic hair for that extra unsettling touch.</p>                                                     <img class="articleimg" src="http://images.viralnova.com/000/088/424/desktop-1414690368.jpg" width="650" alt="4.) This piece also incorporates synthetic hair for that extra unsettling touch." />                                                                              <a class="social-share"><img src="/images/share.png" alt="share" /> </a>                                    <a href="#" class="facebook addthis_button_facebook" style="float:none"></a>                    <a href="#" class="twitter addthis_button_twitter"></a>                 <a href="#" class="pinterest addthis_button_pinterest_share"></a>                   <a href="#" class="addthis_button_google_plusone google"></a>                                                                                   <a href="http://asylum-art.tumblr.com/post/101251100745" target="_blank">Monica Piloni</a>                                              <p>5.) This is a creation made of bronze from 2006 called "Casal."</p>                                                      <img class="articleimg" src="http://images.viralnova.com/000/088/428/desktop-1414690370.jpg" width="650" alt="5.) This is a creation made of bronze from 2006 called &quot;Casal.&quot;" />                                                                             <a class="social-share"><img src="/images/share.png" alt="share" /> </a>                                    <a href="#" class="facebook addthis_button_facebook" style="float:none"></a>                    <a href="#" class="twitter addthis_button_twitter"></a>                 <a href="#" class="pinterest addthis_button_pinterest_share"></a>                   <a href="#" class="addthis_button_google_plusone google"></a>                                                                                   <a href="http://asylum-art.tumblr.com/post/101251100745" target="_blank">Monica Piloni</a>                                              <p>6.) This is actually a collection of similar, smaller pieces called "Concave&amp;Convex."</p>                                                        <img class="articleimg" src="http://images.viralnova.com/000/088/422/desktop-1414690367.jpg" width="650" alt="6.) This is actually a collection of similar, smaller pieces called &quot;Concave&amp;Convex.&quot;" />                                                                               <a class="social-share"><img src="/images/share.png" alt="share" /> </a>                                    <a href="#" class="facebook addthis_button_facebook" style="float:none"></a>                    <a href="#" class="twitter addthis_button_twitter"></a>                 <a href="#" class="pinterest addthis_button_pinterest_share"></a>                   <a href="#" class="addthis_button_google_plusone google"></a>                                                                                   <a href="http://asylum-art.tumblr.com/post/101251100745" target="_blank">Monica Piloni</a>                                              <p>7.) Well ok...I wish I knew what to make of this one.</p>                                                        <img class="articleimg" src="http://images.viralnova.com/000/088/420/desktop-1414690366.jpg" width="650" alt="7.) Well ok...I wish I knew what to make of this one." />                                                                             <a class="social-share"><img src="/images/share.png" alt="share" /> </a>                                    <a href="#" class="facebook addthis_button_facebook" style="float:none"></a>                    <a href="#" class="twitter addthis_button_twitter"></a>                 <a href="#" class="pinterest addthis_button_pinterest_share"></a>                   <a href="#" class="addthis_button_google_plusone google"></a>                                                                                   <a href="http://asylum-art.tumblr.com/post/101251100745" target="_blank">Monica Piloni</a>                                                          <p>8.) I think this is suppose to be a human head served on some kind of platter. Great.</p>                                                        <img class="articleimg" src="http://images.viralnova.com/000/088/421/desktop-1414690366.jpg" width="650" alt="8.) I think this is suppose to be a human head served on some kind of platter. Great." />                                                                             <a class="social-share"><img src="/images/share.png" alt="share" /> </a>                                    <a href="#" class="facebook addthis_button_facebook" style="float:none"></a>                    <a href="#" class="twitter addthis_button_twitter"></a>                 <a href="#" class="pinterest addthis_button_pinterest_share"></a>                   <a href="#" class="addthis_button_google_plusone google"></a>                                                                                   <a href="http://asylum-art.tumblr.com/post/101251100745" target="_blank">Monica Piloni</a>                                              <p>9.) How about a chair shaped like the human body? This unsettling piece of furniture is called "Cadeira."</p>                                                        <img class="articleimg" src="http://images.viralnova.com/000/088/423/desktop-1414690367.jpg" width="650" alt="9.) How about a chair shaped like the human body? This unsettling piece of furniture is called &quot;Cadeira.&quot;" />                                                                               <a class="social-share"><img src="/images/share.png" alt="share" /> </a>                                    <a href="#" class="facebook addthis_button_facebook" style="float:none"></a>                    <a href="#" class="twitter addthis_button_twitter"></a>                 <a href="#" class="pinterest addthis_button_pinterest_share"></a>                   <a href="#" class="addthis_button_google_plusone google"></a>                                                                                   <a href="http://asylum-art.tumblr.com/post/101251100745" target="_blank">Monica Piloni</a>                                              <p>10.) The detail on the face of this one is amazing...and freaky.</p>                                                     <img class="articleimg" src="http://images.viralnova.com/000/088/425/desktop-1414690368.jpg" width="650" alt="10.) The detail on the face of this one is amazing...and freaky." />                                                                              <a class="social-share"><img src="/images/share.png" alt="share" /> </a>                                    <a href="#" class="facebook addthis_button_facebook" style="float:none"></a>                    <a href="#" class="twitter addthis_button_twitter"></a>                 <a href="#" class="pinterest addthis_button_pinterest_share"></a>                   <a href="#" class="addthis_button_google_plusone google"></a>                                                                                   <a href="http://asylum-art.tumblr.com/post/101251100745" target="_blank">Monica Piloni</a>                                      

I’m not sure whether I should be in awe or be scared. Regardless, you have to admit that Piloni does an amazing job of realizing her vision of art. For more from Monica Piloni, make sure to visit her website.

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This Girl Just Flipped Feminine Beauty On Its Head. These Grotesque Photos Say It All.

I once read this quote that has stuck in my mind: “What some women do to themselves for beauty would be considered torture if done by one person to another.” Australian artist Jessica Ledwich seems to agree with that quote, judging by this art series of hers she named “The Ferocious – Monstrous Feminine.” In the series Jessica grotesquely re-imagines traditional feminine beauty routines. In one of the images, a woman has her fingers severed and replaced with the tools used for traditional manicures. See some of the images from the series here below:

Ledwich says she hopes her images will make viewers question the increasing normalization of beauty treatments that once seemed extreme.

I personally think what is really disturbing now is the way that the expectation of a women to engage in beauty treatments, procedures and cosmetic surgery, is so ingrained in our culture that we don’t even think twice about it. These procedures are almost so mainstream now that you book them to fit between your grocery shopping and your laundry. There are a whole generation of young women who not only think it is normal to do this but that its desirable and worse, expected.

Source: Jessica Ledwich Share these thought provoking pictures with your friends below.

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California children’s home pure chaos

THE TIP CAME IN at about 7 p.m. on Monday, July 27. It was an email from a woman named Patricia Cronan, a banker who lived next door to a group home in Long Beach, California. She said the home, run by a nonprofit called Bayfront Youth & Family Services, seemed to be in a perpetual state of … http://www.thecherrycreeknews.com/california-childrens-home-pure-chaos/ #4ThStreetManhattan, #AmericanStaffordshireTerrier, #AndreEikmeier, #AnimalShelter, #Apartment, #Artist, #AttemptedMurder, #California, #FosterCare, #LongBeach, #SexualAbuse

If You’re Sitting Around This Guy, You Might End Up On The Internet. But It’s Pretty Awesome.

There are works of art that exist outside of what hangs on walls inside museums. For example, these simple works of Tokyo-based illustrator Hama-House. When he isn’t working, he likes to create speed sketches of everyday situations… and the resulting drawings are fantastic.

From people talking at a nearby table…

To an exhausted commuter taking a quick nap…

Hama-House is able to create perfect speed doodles of everyday situations.

He makes the mundane look amazing.

Although they are simplistic, it would be so hard for someone else to recreate them.

Somehow, these elaborate sketches make getting coffee or taking a nap on a train seem so much cooler. They are both simple and complicated, and contain so much emotion for something with such normal subjects. To see more of this awesome doodle work, check out his Instagram account. Source: Hama-House These are the kinds of artwork I would love to hang in my own house.

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