Sculpture by Darwin Price. Open studios in #Jingletown. #art #sculpture #face #spine #darwinprice #artwalk #oakland (Taken with Instagram at Jingletown)
The kiss of death.
This astonishing sculpture forms part of Barcelona’s Poblenou Cemetery. The Kiss of Death (El Petó de la Mort in Catalan and El beso de la muerte in Spanish) dates back to 1930. A winged skeleton bestows a kiss on the lips of a handsome young man: is it ecstasy on his face or resignation? Little wonder the sculpture elicits strong and varying responses from whoever gazes upon it.
Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture—must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.
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| — | Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (via colour-me-curious) |
Calamita Cosmica by Gino De Dominicis is a giant anatomically correct skeleton (with the exception of a beak in place of a regular nose) that has been on display all over the world. Read about its unusual history here.
#spine #fusion #pain #me(Taken with instagram)
I feel your pain, lady. Indeed. Mine looks very similar, except there’s a cage in there where my 3-4 lower vertebrae used to be. We cyborgs shall rule the world.
