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Jan van de Velde II, Death with arrow and hourglass, 1633
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Rachel Ann Stevenson BITTER SWEET Height 26 cm, Edition of 25 Glass dome, wood, entomology, resin
“Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.”
From: John Marshall “ANATOMY FOR ARTISTS” 436pp, Smith Elder, London, 1878
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“The End” from the 1909 book Some Modern Conjuring.
“Ebrahim Khadem Bayat’s untitled, ethereal photo of a bird on a draped chair plays on ideas of presence and absence. (Photo courtesy of the Art Gallery, University of Maryland)”
Ebrahim Khadem Bayat
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Wolves don’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep… or do they?
Unfinished illustration inspired by survivor’s guilt
Alleged emission and re-absorption of ectoplasm by a medium, observed by German physician and psychiatrist Albert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing in 1913
La Jeune Fille et la Mort painted by Marianne Stokes in 1900. via www.didoisux-wordpress-com.