![]() ![]() He states he has to push his images further, further, until they become warped, grotesque, yet truly visceral. Let’s be clear, Maruo has claimed his pictures are fantasies of his desires, of the pleasure and pain which binds all relationships through intimacy and sex. One that suggests a grotesque penetration. Licking an eyeball is an act of perverse intimacy. And it could be presumed such pictures stem from Maruo’s observation (obsession?) taken from the pleasure and pain gained from intimacy. For me, both pictures raise questions about the meaning of tongues probing eyeballs or tongues licking an eye out of its socket. ![]() Her pose suggests she is both enraptured and horrified, unable to move.īoth pictures are the work of Japanese artist Suehiro Maruo. ![]() In another picture, a skull’s head, with a Clockwork Orange bowler, thrusts a serpentine tongue into another girl’s eye. Who knows? The image is grotesque, macabre, disturbing but charged with a deep and let’s be honest, warped eroticism. His hand opens her face like a ripe fruit or a swollen pudendum. ![]() “The world is a freakshow for my peeping eye’s delight” – Suehiro Maruo, Ultra-Gash InfernoĪ soldier sticks his tongue in a young girl’s eye. ![]()
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