After watching Alien (1979) and being astonished by the fusion of mechanical and biological systems to create the Alien world, I was interested in the mentality of the creator behind it all- H.R. Giger. I had originally learned about him from my co-worker this past summer who was raving about the art. As I mentioned in my previous Alien post, much of his creations were inspired by invertebrates.

A further search into Giger’s works revealed many interesting things about the artist. Contrary to what I thought, his work mainly surrounds the intersection of humans and machines. This actually makes sense since the final form of the Alien is still humanoid in shape. Furthermore, though the facehugger is invertebrate-like, it is very much shaped like a human hand. That said, since invertebrates are segmented creatures and machines often have distinct sections, it is easy to melt vertebrates and invertebrates together in this art form.

Fun fact: turns out Giger has several bars designed with his “biomechanical” theme!

URLs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._Giger (Info)

https://hrgiger.com/ (Info + images)