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Digital Drawing + Development
After browsing various images of cropped parts on the human body telling a story of what happened to the person I wanted to make my own version. I started with a digital drawing I made inspired by a post from Angemi about a woman who was beaten in the face. The story was very heart…
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Andres Serrano
Also known for his work Piss Christ, Serrano captures a fine line between beauty and melancholy. Each image titled with their story of how the corpse arrived at the morgue; each participant kept anonymous with delicately placed veils and tightly cropped images. The images capture the loneliness of death and he how feel staring at death in the…
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Sketchbook Update- Trail and error
After a group tutorial i was given some constructive feedback on focusing on retaining my ideas as to some it may come across as art for shock value and therefore can come across as offensive. This made me think of trying a more lighthearted and possibly humours approach to death acceptance. my first idea was…
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Sketchbook Update
More illustrations from The Sick Rose. Right side page was from a workshop were we created morphological list to help our creativity flow.
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Sketchbook Update
The initial beginnings of my sketchbook as I begin to explore the gritty details of taboo ways of death. Front page : simple collage brainstorm of the elements of my initial findings.
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A trip to London
From the 28th of November to the 1st of December we embarked on a journey to London to explore and inspire ourselves with the many works on show our vast capital city had to offer us. Taylor Wessing photography prize Tate Modern Photographers gallery Royal Academy-Duchamp and Dali exhibition Saatchi Gallery – Art Riot /…
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Design for death
Design for death by Barbara Jones This book which I found in the MMU library, is filled with beautiful illustrations and observational drawings from death rituals around the globe. Jones work is an excellent example of merging death with art to create something visually interesting and educational rather than scary.
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Previous work
Previous work from my first unit of the year at MMU. Here is some photography work capturing how the western world typically mourn and show appreciation for our dead.
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WARNING-Graphic Image
A certain kind of death (2003) Caitlin Doughty’s book ‘Smoke gets in your eyes and other lessons from the crematory’ she meantions in detail the gruesome details of the condition of the corpses delivered to her mortuary which are often not just deceased in clean white hospital gowns. Which lead me onto needing to satisfying…