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Pencils on paper 50×70 cm

Breaking Bad is an American crime drama television series. The show’s main character is Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He turns to a life of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine, in order to secure his family’s financial future before he dies, teaming with his former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). Breaking Bad is widely regarded as one of the greatest American television series of all time. By its end, the series was among the most-watched cable shows on American television. The show received numerous awards and  entered the Guinnes Book of Records as the highest rated show of all time. I am very fond of the character of Walter White because my father died of lung cancer.

Pencils on paper 42×30 cm

Betsy Palmer is an American actress who has worked mainly in television. She’s become famous for having starred, in 1980, the mother of Jason Voorhees, the serial killer of the film series “Friday the 13th”. Although personally I don’t think that all the movies in the series have managed well, but i have to admit that Jason has become an icon of horror cinema.

Pencils on paper 42×30 cm

Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress and author. Although she was initially known as a “scream queen” because of her starring roles in several horror films early in her career, such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night, and Terror Train. I’m a big fan of horror movies, especially those of the 70s and 80s. I think John Carpenter’s Halloween, is one of the best horror movies of all time. Everyone remembers the serial killer Michael Myers, but all the other actors are put into the background. With this work I wanted to pay tribute to Jamie Lee Curtis, the actress who plays Laurie Strode in some movies in the series.

Pencils on paper 42×30 cm

The original film, written and directed by Wes Craven and titled A nightmare on Elm Street, was released in 1984. The story focuses on Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) attacking Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) and her friends in their dreams, successfully killing all but Nancy, in fictional Springwood,Ohio. Krueger’s back-story is revealed by Nancy’s mother, Marge, who explains he was a child murderer. The parents of Springwood killed Krueger after he was acquitted on a technicality. Nancy defeats Freddy by pulling him from the dream world and stripping him of his powers when she stops being afraid of him. Heather Elizabeth Langenkamp (born July 17, 1964) is an American and television actress. She is best known for her role as Nancy Thompson from the A Nightmare on Elm Street films. She served as executive producer and narrator to the documentary Never sleep again: the Elm street legacy. Freddy Krueger is an icon of horror cinema and Heather Langenkamp is the actress who has faced it in 3 different movies. How could I not pay tribute?

Pencils on paper 42×30 cm

Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by British author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature  in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley’s name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823. Shelley had travelled to Europe, visiting Germany and Switzerland. In 1814, prior to writing the famous novel, Shelley took a journey on the river Rhine in Germany with a stop in Gernsheim which is just 17km (10mi) away from Frankenstein’s castle, where two centuries before her visit an alchemist was engaged in experiments. Later, she traveled in the region of Geneva (Switzerland) where much of the story takes place and the topics of galvanism and other similar occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her lover and future husband, Percy Shelley. Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days about what her possible storyline could be, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made; her dream later evolved into the story within the novel. James Whale’s Frankenstein is one of the masterpieces of the horror genre. More than horror, one feels compassion for the creature in the film, played by Boris Karloff. This is a tribute to all the creatures of the world, including me.