Illustrations by Hsiao-Ron Cheng

The illustrations from Hsiao-Ron Cheng send me to literally crazy. Colors are delicate, just mentioned, but the looks of the characters are absent, very detached and with wild eyes. The sweetness and delicacy are opposed to a form of disinterest just mentioned. Yet I can't help but observe them with inquisitive eye in search of a feeling or an explanation.

Hsiao-Ron Cheng is a taiwanese artist class 1986. Among her customers there are fashion magazines and illustration. Use mixed media or digital tools and skillfully mixes classical instruments such as pencils, watercolors and oils.

The result of her work is destabilizing and perplexing because it tells the contradiction between delicacy (and sense of intimacy) the reassuring warmth given by pastel colors and nature always very present and these strange characters: delicate porcelain skin, almost transparent but with dark eyes, red and elongated. A bit like fauns caught in a moment of reflection during a joke of bad taste to the unlucky guy.

Want to talk about her children? Small creatures clean and tidy but cruel look icy brilliance. As in the best tradition of horror cinema, you dig deep into the human soul and it turns out that the fears of man are alike: a girl with blue eyes and colored bow in her hair can do more afraid of a killer with the sharp knife.