Category Archives: Art/Craft

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‘Ecce Animal’ – a human skull made from street cocaine by Dutch artist Diddo.

As part of the project, the artist sent his materials off to a lab for analysis, where they were confirmed as cocaine but that ‘further constituent components identified included phenacetin, caffeine, paracetamol and a relative large percentage of sugars’.

Intended as a thought provoking piece on the nature of man in society, an accompanying poem by the artist suggests possible interpretations and conclusions that might be inferred. To wit:

once we were animals.
like any other, we lived in an environment of fear and want.
then, we became ‘human’ and aspired to be better.
we learned to control our environment but the fear stayed,
because we never learned to control ourselves.
it is frightening to look at the face of our animal side laid bare
by comfortable excess; the spoils of its aggression.
but what exactly is it about this image that is so confronting?
is it this division in our idea of self?
or is it a realization that though we have mastered the outside world,
we will always remain subservient to our inner selves.

Now for ye.

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Beauty: a masterclass in subtle digital animation directed by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro who sez:

A series of well selected images from the tradition of pictorial beauty are appropriated, (from the renaissance to the symbolism of the late 1800s, through Mannerism, Pastoralism, Romanticism and Neo-classicism) with the intention of retracing the sentiment beneath the veil of appearance.

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In his photo/flesh embroidery series ‘a flor de piel’, Spanish artist David Catá stitches the faces of people important in his life into the skin of his own palm. Sez he:

…their lives have been interwoven with mine to build my history. Every moment lived stays in the memory to finally be forgotten. somehow, this fact is painful, since there are only material things and traces that people leave behind.

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