Marcel Winatschek

Paul Robertson’s Beautiful Derangement

Australian pixel artist Paul Robertson makes SNES-style anime GIFs that land somewhere between shrine and crime scene. Dense, hyperviolent, fluent in a very specific kind of Japanese pop culture noise—his TakoKing piece alone would mark him as someone worth following obsessively. The craft is almost offensive in how precise it is, every pixel doing exactly what it should in service of something completely unhinged. He posts on the Mecha Fetus Visual Blog, which is exactly the right name for a venue carrying this kind of work.