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08/05/2014 12:40:28 AM · #1 |
| Lake Natron. Yes, he repositioned the critters. |
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08/05/2014 01:02:38 AM · #2 |
| Odd that they look so serene, would think they'd be contorted, writhing in pain. |
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08/05/2014 01:34:26 AM · #3 |
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08/05/2014 02:04:00 AM · #4 |
| Beautifully done all the same. Thanx |
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08/05/2014 02:44:19 AM · #5 |
Gosh! Amazing and bizarrely beautiful. Thanks for sharing. (I want the recipe - but I bet I'd need to keep my fingers out of the mix.)
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08/05/2014 08:26:36 AM · #6 |
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08/05/2014 10:01:43 AM · #7 |
| I've seen this a few times now - I really liked this one because it featured some images which I had not seen before. Rather awesome stuff. |
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08/05/2014 10:29:02 AM · #8 |
| These are fascinating. Especially the Dove. |
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08/05/2014 11:01:33 AM · #9 |
| Perverse that people would find these images of staged carcases beautiful and interesting. We all have different tastes, I guess. Live, healthy animals in a natural environment are more appealing to me. I wonder the popular reaction if there had been a couple of human remains staged in the same manner. |
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08/05/2014 11:10:03 AM · #10 |
| Oh, Richard! It's not about the "staging", it's about the eerie quality of the fossilized/dessicated remains, they are haunting and redolent of mystery. You KNOW we all love fine images of birds in their natural habitat as well; the two categories are not exclusive. |
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08/05/2014 11:25:28 AM · #11 |
Each of us have preferences and varying degrees of what constitutes art.
I for one am not the least offended by these images and actually look forward to the day that I can get a glimpse of Gunther von Hagens "Body World" exhibition.
If everyone pulled in the same direction, the world would tip over. :O)
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08/05/2014 11:25:29 AM · #12 |
| These images "hurt my eyes". The artist said, "...placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life’" That's the unnatural and perverse act. Doesn't happen in a healthy, natural environment. Nature is pretty good at decomposition and recycling. Dust to dust is about right. It does bother me to see the natural process interrupted. The artist is exploiting the morbid art and abusing the animal carcasses. |
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08/05/2014 12:31:58 PM · #13 |
| II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image... |
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08/05/2014 01:20:27 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by hahn23:
These images "hurt my eyes". The artist said, "...placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life’" That's the unnatural and perverse act. Doesn't happen in a healthy, natural environment. Nature is pretty good at decomposition and recycling. Dust to dust is about right. It does bother me to see the natural process interrupted. The artist is exploiting the morbid art and abusing the animal carcasses. |
Just out of curiosity, how do you feel about the calcified/preserved remains of the victims in Pompeii? |
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08/05/2014 01:35:20 PM · #15 |
It doesn't bother me at all that he moved them... and... I POSITIVE that it didn't bother the birds at all.
Fascinating! I learned from looking at how their bodies are... even in death. |
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08/05/2014 01:37:50 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by hahn23:
Perverse that people would find these images of staged carcases beautiful and interesting. We all have different tastes, I guess. Live, healthy animals in a natural environment are more appealing to me. I wonder the popular reaction if there had been a couple of human remains staged in the same manner. |
It's different tastes. Many of us find beauty in things that others don't. I like ruined, abandoned things that were once grand. I have never seen anything like that dove, and if you can't see the beauty in its strange demise and preservation for its uniqueness, well, that's kind of too bad from where I sit.
ETA: It doesn't make those of us who like these incredible mummified remains perverse, simply capable of appreciating them for what they are.
Message edited by author 2014-08-05 13:39:54.
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08/05/2014 02:06:23 PM · #17 |
| I found it both fascinating, hauntingly beautiful and mesmerising. Memento mori was a truly morbid brief-lived (pun intended) fashion in Victorian times - a few examples here. |
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08/05/2014 02:39:01 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by hahn23:
These images "hurt my eyes". The artist said, "...placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life’" That's the unnatural and perverse act. Doesn't happen in a healthy, natural environment. Nature is pretty good at decomposition and recycling. Dust to dust is about right. It does bother me to see the natural process interrupted. The artist is exploiting the morbid art and abusing the animal carcasses. |
You are indeed surprising sometimes Richard... This is a common attitude among the Navajo people, but a rather unusual attitude for a white person.
In any case, trust me when I say, speaking as a geologist, that the artist didn't have any significant effect on the process of decomposition, if anything he only increased the rate at which decay was proceeding.
As for abuse of an animal carcass, everyone knows that you need at least a couple pounds of dynamite to do it properly... ;)
Message edited by author 2014-08-05 14:39:36. |
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08/05/2014 02:44:47 PM · #19 |
Speaking of this sort of thing, here's one I remember from my days as a geology student.. Fascinating replacement of a mouse by atacamite and malachite.
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08/05/2014 03:43:45 PM · #20 |
| I just had the courage to look at this thread as the title "... morbid art" was keeping me away. Absolutely amazing and eerily serene! |
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08/05/2014 04:11:47 PM · #21 |
hmm, certainly morbid but intriguing at the same time.
And photographically speaking, I find the images fantastic. |
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