‘Your Corpse Is Beautiful CXXIII’
By Mia-Jane Harris
The Swan Lake piece is especially wonderful.
Kenny Scharf. Highway Disaster, 1978. Acrylic on board, 12.5 x 14.5 “.
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Ron Mueck: Couple Under an Umbrella (2013)
Aokigahara or Sea of Trees
A forest in Japan at the base of Mt. Fuji.The most popular suicide site in Japan and the second most popular place in the world to commit suicide after the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
The most common forms of suicide here are by hanging and drug overdose.
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I took a 7 week coast to coast road trip after being laid off from Boeing. I didn’t have a camper but realized that being able to pull off the road at a rest or truck stop was the way to go to make the trip affordable. With a few sheets of 1/2” plywood and misc. hardware this is what I came up with. The effort was well worth the time and materials.
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Byeong Doo Moon. I Have Been Dreaming to be a Tree.
“everything still exists. you need to keep moving.”
Five colour screen print, 2008
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“sung inside, a light crosses side to side until a sung reprise. till your lungs give out, till your lungs give out in time.”
24x36” 6 color screenprint.
2013
I just helped my dad buy a print of this for his new bachelor pad
Joel-Peter Witkin, Las Meniñas, New Mexico, 1987
So Good!
My eye caught a dark form lying on the river bottom. It took me a few moments to comprehend what I had stumbled upon. Lying peacefully in the shallow waters of the river, only a few meters from shore, was a full-grown cougar. The contrast between the serenity of the scene I was witnessing and what must have played out here in the cougar’s final moments made me shiver. It was the first shiver of many, as I stripped down and waded out into the icy water to get this shot. Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada
Photo credit: Ryan Peruniak
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Caleb Brown (b.1981, USA) - Shark Drop. Oil on Canvas (2009-2010)
New York based artist Caleb Brown was born in Washington State where he was raised and started drawing and painting at a very young age. His paintings are cultural allegories that aim to reflect his view of the modern world. He combines themes and elements of contemporary life (such as media culture, genetic engineering, globalization, etc.) and expands into completely ridiculous scenes that depict a fictitious near-future or alternate reality. Brown’s hope is that by employing this editorial and often satirical method of expression, rather than using a more journalistic approach, he might communicate his observations and feelings about our modern existence more aptly than by painting actual images of contemporary life. Great thanks to the artist for sending this over.
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