David Huggins: the artist who lost his virginity to an extra-terrestrial
Pablo Picasso once said painting was “just another way of keeping a diary”. For David Huggins, that was very much the case, except his artistic diary entries more closely resembled classified Area 51 files. Huggins claims he first encountered alien life forms at eight years old, and by 17, was regularly courting a female alien named Crescent, and with the permission of the aliens he befriended, he began to paint their inter-species love affair.
His memories can be hazy, such is the nature of alien abduction, but romantic that he is, he never forgot the first time he had sex with Crescent. Huggins had gone out into the woods and saw her crouching under a tree. She wore a blue gown and had black hair and blacker, saucer-like eyes. The scientists among us might wonder what the main takeaways of this groundbreaking discovery were because, on the face of it, if Huggins had a genuine alien encounter, it could alter the course of life on Earth forever if proven true.
Many questions arise. How did she communicate? How did she get here? Unfortunately, Huggins’ recollection was brief: “I didn’t remember a thing apart from reaching my climax after she sat on top of me.” Since then, Huggins has often used Crescent as a muse in his work. Her jet-black fringe sets her apart from the other aliens he paints, as do the pink love hearts that occasionally crop up. He told Explore the Obscure that one of his favourite paintings of her is based on a time he bought her pink cyclamens.
But that’s not to say it’s been plain sailing. Huggins is the proud father of a small clan of alien-human hybrids, but Crescent neglected to tell him at first, which naturally caused some tension. It was actually the first time he raised his voice at her. That said, she showed him the babies eventually, and it was an overall happy memory.
There are frequent recurring characters in Huggins’ paintings, and a praying-mantis-type alien is one of them. Reflecting on meeting his children, he said: “The insect-praying mantis being was there; he took me into another room that was filled with babies. I remember saying, ‘Whose babies are these?’ He pointed to me. I was quite taken aback.”
Huggins has dealt with the shock of that is arguably the healthiest way you can deal with such a seismic life event. While the shocking details of his story seem to dominate media coverage, the sincerity of his accounts and the recurrent appearances of certain aliens in his paintings do make for intriguing artwork.
Quite touchingly, the paintings of Crescent seem to be the most laboured on. Then again, he has to spend considerable time piecing together fragments of memory to paint her jet-black hair accurately. “It’s hard,” he says, “to know if the female extra-terrestrial with hair are wearing wigs or not.”
