I have just seen the latest post on Matthew Rose's stunning blog: A Book About Death http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/. It details the project for 1,000 artists to contribute 500 postcards each to create an unbound book about Death. The exhibition will take place at the Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in New York City this September. The latest post is reproduced above. I realise the image by Beth Robinson is disturbing, but it is also pretty fantastic work of art. For more on the exibition and some other thought-provoking pieces of work, visit the website. Please let me know what you think?
Also, you absolutely must visit Beth Robinson's website: http://www.strangedolls.net/ I can guarantee you will have never seen such, well - strange dolls in all your life. Remarkable!
Great - I love weird stuff! I'll go and have a look later laurie and report back!
ReplyDeleteHi Laurie, Those dolls remind me of Das Geschrei by Edvard Munch--remember the horrific skeletal head? I've noticed the mask has become a popular Halloween costume.
ReplyDeleteCome see my Mary Magdalene collage! Thanks! Margaret
P.S. Laurie, thanks for stopping by my blog! Sweet. Best, Margaret
ReplyDeleteAn interesting concept and some strange and wonderful images. Thanks for sharing this with us.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh! That is such a powerful image. Ghoulish and intriguing.
ReplyDeleteHi Laurie, just noticed where you signed in to follow my blog... welcome, welcome... and I just signed up to follow yours. I see you have an interest in cemetery art, and am looking forward to looking further through your back postings, but it is late tonight, but I'll be back soon. If you go through some of my older posts I've done alot of photos in graveyards over the years, and have alot more photos yet to post, it is one of a number of threads being woven into... the magic lantern show... again, thanks for dropping by !
ReplyDeletewow, what an awesome project. and i love the dolls--they're inspiring, i want to make some of my own. thanks for the comment on my blog!
ReplyDeletethat so quite facinating - I got for Christmas a book entitled 'The English way of death' brilliant. Judith
ReplyDeleteThanks Judith.
ReplyDeleteWould that be the book by Julian Litten? I once had an interesting conversation with him while waiting to visit the underground catacombs at Kensal Green cemetery in London.
Hi Laurie,
ReplyDeleteI want to weigh in on this image which combined with the signifying text is outrageously stunning and deep. It cuts to the bone as only the truth we all seek to disguise does. no disguise here... hence the terms "wierd" and "ghoulish", terms that often cover-up the horrible essence of being.
I read your other blog. The most recent post wherein you recount journalistic encounters by which your moral fiber was weighed, is one I wish the average person was more familiar. Everything in the worlds present cultural direction moves against true moral fiber... that which we find only in ourselves when truly meaningful decisions compete with our completely encouraged and reinforced urges toward self-indulgence and reward. Keep writing these stories. In a time we are all facing the oncoming global beaurocratic unification and dictatorship aided by material self-indulgence and risk-reduction, these stories must be told and heard.
Bonefarm
Hi Bonefarm.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your kind words. I agree with your description of words used to cover up, as you say, the horrible essence of being. There are so many, I wonder if someone has tried to make a list of them, for example: Crossed over to the other side, passed away, gone to a better place, left their mortal coil [not entirely sure what they mean by this one] and so on. what do others think?
Thanks also for your comment re my recent post about moral fibre on 'My Writing Life'. When I get the chance to complete the next post on Photographic moral fibre, I think some will be amazed, as well as dismayed.
Laurie
woow this is amazing! i love the picture.. i'll have to see the rest of the art too!
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