Aunt's Dance

Eli Wild
Aunt's Dance
Risograph Print
8.5" x 11"

Eli Wild is an Oakland-based painter and printmaker exploring how fear, memory, and meaning take shape in the uncanny. This series fuses the visual language of medieval illuminated manuscripts with the exaggerated world of B-horror films, both reflecting the anxieties of their time through distortion, humor, and the grotesque. This piece, inspired by the Japanese cult classic Hausu (1977), reimagines the aunt’s dance with a skeleton in her haunted home. It’s eerie, joyful, and unhinged, a swirl of grief, denial, and absurdity that feels like both a celebration and a warning.

This is a risograph print. Risograph printing is a process that uses a specialized Japanese print machine to layer vibrant soy-based inks through stencil-like templates onto paper. The inks smudge if touched.