Southern Gothic is an aesthetic which understands the world to be dying. It celebrates crucifixes, fading wallpaper, one-room schoolhouses and gauche, technicolour images of Jesus Christ. It’s true crime snapshots and a faded, dirty American flag. Southern Gothic is the sweat dripping from Robert Patterson’s brow in The Devil All the Time, the deranged sister of cottagecore, a Lisbon girl impaled on a white picket fence: it is the dialectic between the grotesque and American mythology.
Anon/Polyester
The people down here committed a lot of grave atrocities against other human beings. And I think that is something that you can feel in the air very palpably; there’s a tension that never really goes away. Too much has happened on this land to not be dark and terrifying, even years later. It’s like the ground is soaked in blood and the trees have drunk it up.
Ethel Cain in Reed/Face
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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