H.R. Giger, Abortion, and Aliens

This is actually one of my favorite artists when I was young, due to the organic and intricate designs of the phallic shapes based on the artist's nightmares. Although it was weird how I completely forgot about his work for some odd reason.

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In high school, I found that Giger's work was absolutely cool. But I had a hard time trying to emulate detailed work like bone structures, perfect organisms, plants (I still have a hard time drawing plants). But it was the smoothness of the shapes that I was looking for.

I guess that I was still a bit too young to understand the artist and the nature behind his work, that is until my first relationship.

When I was 17 or 18, my family and I watched Alien (my sister had to watch it for an English class and dad reluctantly agreed). Before this experience however, I watched a play through of the Alien Isolation game on YouTube. The screaming was enjoyable from watching two different mediums of the same franchise, but there was something that I like about the movie.

Baby goes on a killing rampage on a spaceship.

Obviously it was the part where the alien explodes from one of the crewmate's stomach.

I think that at this part, this scene resonated with me not because of the intense gore and how it's basically putting a man in a woman's place with the concept of birthing a child. It's because I was going through a rough breakup with a guy who began to abuse me, how I had a pregnancy scare after the breakup even though I was still menstruating, and I began to have an intense hatred towards him and my body. So this scene emotionally gratified my brain since it's kind of like payback in my head.

Works Cited

Cobbs, John L. “Alien as an Abortion Parable.” Literature Film Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3, July 1990, p. 198. EBSCOhost, search-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.acsaa.talonline.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&AN=9608071192&site=ehost-live.