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Incredible Body Paintings By Gesine Marwedel Transform People Into Animals And Organs

Gesine Marwedel is a brilliant body painting artist based in Germany who creates both beautiful and terrifying works of art right on the models who serve as her living canvases.

Marwedel is a master of painting on and with the human form – she can either emphasize it to work with her painting or eliminate it to let her optical illusions shine through. In both cases, she creates amazing art that melds together with the people it’s painted on.

These aren’t just pretty pictures of illusion drawings – Marwedel also believes in the therapeutic qualities of body art. She has even published a book exploring how this unique art style can be used as therapy.

More info: gesine-marwedel.de | Facebook

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There is a beast with heart of cold stone
that dashes like lightning, shreds flesh from bone. //
Bewitched by this beast, I fell to my knees.
My mouth babbled madness and mumbled soft pleas. //
I stared down the ravenous, gnashing dark maw of a cute cuddly kitten with yarn in its paw