NEW!  CRACKS!   FINDING   ART   UNDERFOOT
ART BOOK, ​2ND EDITION
8.5" x 8.5" PREMIUM PaPERBACK


Broken by stresses and time, sidewalk cracks can be where your imagination comes to play. Our brains instantly process images and shapes to identify and categorize the familiar or foe for the sake of survival. While survival isn’t a day to day crisis anymore, our brains continue to seek out what might be in the dark.

Is it something or nothing? This is core object recognition. This is pareidolia. This is the art of noticing. This is visual perception. This is hidden images. This is found street art. This is contemporary art. This is artistic pattern recognition. This is a puzzle made of cracks, shadows in  cement, reflecting and revealing more than a mirror can. 

This art directs your eye to a collection of ordinary cracks in sidewalk cement, while inviting you to explore, analyze, and identify the shadow inhabitants in these black and white photos. It is a collection of mystical, whimsical as well as jarringly monstrous sidewalk cracks. And this new edition features colorized images to reveal what there is to see in those shadow cracks. Does it match it what you saw in the black and white photos? What will you see? You might well see something entirely different. Let your imagination play. Side-by-side photos help you see what you maybe missing. 

The 8.5"x 8.5" paperback with premium paper is an ideal gift and conversation starter as you agree or disagree with friends on what you see in the cracks.  

​The art is divided into Heroes & Monster Us, Spirited and Whimsical.

Why do I see the heroes, monsters, the spirited, and the whimsical underfoot?  They draw my attention and capture my imagination as a reflection of what I already enjoy, what I already dislike, and all the rest that already fascinates or disturbs me.  

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$9.99 KINDLE


First edition still on  Kindle

CRACKS! FINDING ART UNDERFOOT BOOK COVER
Book Cover: Cracks! Finding Art Underfoot

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CRACKS! Finding Art Underfoot is a  photography book of 30+ complex and compelling sidewalk cracks in and around Los Angeles, CA. 94 pages. 
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Robin Grossman began capturing these startlingly complex sidewalk cracks in 2015 and over the course of a year she collected over 30 photographs included in this coffee table book. In 2016, Robin had a successful gallery showing in Los Angeles of her photographs, mounted on frames with faux black pumice borders. Most of those photographs are included in this book with a few new discoveries.

If you enjoyed puzzling over the art and images in this book, please leave an Amazon review! 


​About

Robin Grossman is an artist, author, and photographer. PrettyGrimBiz is her DBA, T-shirts line, and website. A fan of grim art, horror fiction, horror films.

Her books:
CRACKS! FINDING ART UNDERFOOT &
​CLAIMED BAGGAGE Horror Short Stories 4 twisted tales are available on Amazon. Her grim and twisted T-shirts are also available on Amazon.   

RED LINKS take buyers to Amazon, where my art and words can be purchased securely in ways I don't need to know. 
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INSTAGRAM:   @prettygrimbiz

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Short horror stories: 
​4 twisted tales 

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4 Twisted Tales of Horror, Body Horror, Revenge, and Baggage of All Kinds we lug around. 

“The Baggage Carousel Thief” steals a possessed suitcase from the airport and is taken on a mind-bending, gender-bending, time-bending journey to finish a vengeful spirit’s slaughter as a door to door sales girl.

In “Antwon Webb and the Grave Suitcase, ” a homeless vet finds a dumped suitcase in the trash that forces him on a journey to avenge a young girl, who is more than she seems.

“The Gift Bag” is about a middle-aged woman, with a mortgage, debt, and kids, who steals strange suitcase when she discovers her wealthy best friend uses it to turn a cheap necklace into priceless jewelry.

A couple in "Future Baggage," teleport to their new home base on an airless planet and a seemingly broken teleporter delivers an endless stream of baggage that will crush them.



​Claimed Baggage Book Cover and T-shirts designed and created by Robin Grossman

​AUG 1991:  THE PERFECTLY WONDERFUL WONDERFOOT

  Yeah. So, it's like that and in trying to find my way out of the clutter, I found a horror story I wrote back in the day: August 1991. It still makes me laugh because I'm old and rotting AND the story still hits my wonderfully perfect funny bone.

I'm pretty sure the magazine is long gone.  The only thing that turns up is a Fusion Magazine in El Paso. Nope, Fusion Creative Media Magazine was based in Edison, NJ.   Cover Art: Masks by Allen Bush. I don't know who to credit for the art that accompanies my story. 

Totem   for   the
​Reluctant   witness T-shirt


​A twisting smear connect a staring eye ball, a scream, an eye looking away, and widen eye and, uncertainty, and a wordless gasp. It's a commentary on the horror of an oppressive society and the need for better whistleblower protections.

Lovin'    That   Razor   burn   
It's    only   flesh!    store


​Gruesome digital art of a mustached Frankenstein with his skin raw. Apparently he loves loves loves the razor burn. After all, it's only flesh and flesh heels. I mean heals. Oh the horror, but his hair looks fab. Originally created with conte crayons.