Quotes, Forgotten Art and the Grotesque

I opened up a dusty old portfolio I had and came across these two early pen and ink works:


"The Violent Cage" 10"x12" pen and ink on illustration board 1992


and another that I did for an art contest in 1994 for Griffon beer, aptly titled "Griffon" 48"x24" pen and ink on illustration board.  I didn't win the contest... 


I've always had a hard time describing the type of art I do.  I've recently been reading about artists such as Otto Dix and George Grosz, and although they were from war time Germany, I do see similarities. I'm from war time now.   I also came across these quotes and thought that they were befitting of my art as well. 


"The grotesque is the expression of the estranged or alienated world, i.e. the familiar world is seen from a perspective which suddenly renders it strange (and, presumably, this strangeness may be either comic or terrifying, or both)."

"The grotesque is a game with the absurd, in the sense that the grotesque artist plays, half laughingly, half horrified, with the deep absurdities of existence."

"The grotesque is an attempt to control and exorcise the demonic elements in the world."

- Wolfgang Kaysar