Cecil W. Lee

The Dark Side is a portfolio of visual semi-perversions in dreamlike imagery expressing fantasy and surrealist trauma. This series invites viewers to linger in discomfort, where the surreal edges of fantasy, fear, and fascination dissolve into each other. Grotesque for some, yes, but grotesque never quite loses its charm. Waking nightmares, half-formed memories, tales whispered but never written. 

My objective: to explore subconscious repulsions and aspirations, kept silent out of fear of condemnation, institutionalization, or worse. They may not be the you you recognize, but they are still part of a subconscious reality. A psychological oxymoron, buried for protection. The Dark Side is not about horror in the traditional sense, but about the emotional residue that remains after the fear has passed. For some, this collection can be psychological in tone, unresolved, and maybe disturbingly familiar. ​Many of the below are within my upcoming book, "Obsession to Change".

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