If there’s one thing I know about art, it’s that I like it weird. I also like intricate pieces with lots of details to discover. For best results, of course, a piece would be both weird and intricate.

My current favorite for digital imagery and surreal Photoshoppage is J.K. Potter, whose twisted human forms I find mesmerising. For sculpture, a medium I have always held in awe, the incomparable Tom Kuebler and his fully three-dimensional menagerie of freaks, characters, and oddities.

I wouldn’t have thought it possible to top either one for sheer fascination value until I ran across the bizarre work of Joel-Peter Witkin, who, combines the media of both the previous artists (photography and sculpture, if you allow still-life installations to be a form of sculpture), but with a macabre twist: the human bodies and constituent parts depicted in his work are real. Not content to simply recruit and photograph real-life freaks, at one point he actually cut a deal with Mexico City’s morgue to use corpses and body parts of the indigent and unclaimed. Very strange stuff indeed. Too surreal to be outright horrifying, and yet the morbid foreknowledge of his subject matter still elicits a faintly creepy reaction. It’s worth a look.