A fascinating mini documentary by Kevin Staake, appropriately tilt-shifted to illustrate the morbid miniatures of Abigail Goldman.

Goldman – an artist,  former reporter and current public defender at Bellingham, Washington – creates dioramas of death and destruction based on the gruesome crime scene photos and autopsies she observes in the course of her day job.

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5 thoughts on “Dieorama

  1. Clampers Outside!

    Super little doc on one person’s interest in and creative expression of the macabre.
    The tilt-shift work mixes brilliantly, an enjoyable watch for a dark topic :)

  2. Starina

    I cannot abide Bellingham. It’s damp, dark, heroin-ridden, no resources for under-21s and full of people who wear full hiking gear 24/7 and think it’s the greatest place in the world. I lived there for a time and it’s as depressing as it looks in this video.

    Howeverrrrrr, her work is, dare I say it, deadly. I also love that she made a San Quentin quilt. Good to have a public defender with a sense of humour and creativity.

  3. f_lawless

    I dunno , kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth!
    I guess expressing herself artistically in such a way helps her to engage with her morbid fascination and allows her to desensitise herself so that she can cope with her extreme line of work. Fair enough.

    But that’s her own unique situation. I think her husband made a mistake when he decided to share her work with the wider world – she then got encouraged by the half who saw her work and reacted favourably,- those who presumably are also desensitised to the macabre – and now she thinks “it’s fun” to continue spreading her work and “gets a thrill” by the thought that’s she’s disturbing the people who might see it.

    Homicide rates are on the rise globally; we’re already desensitised enough to extreme violence; why use your artistic talents to spread more negativity IMO ;)

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