Archive for the ‘Death + Art / Architecture’ Category
Texas Prisoner Burials Are a Gentle Touch in a Punitive System Manny Fernandez, New York Times (January 05, 2012) At a cemetery in Texas, murderers and other convicts whose bodies are unclaimed can be interred and, for a few moments, remembered. A really interesting article on the cemetery used by Texas prison officials for unclaimed [...]
Soylent Green is Dead Bodies Eaten by Mushrooms
17, Aug 2011Green Burial Project Developing Corpse-Eating Mushrooms Paul Ridden, gizmag.com (July 29, 2011) The Infinity Burial Project Jae Rhim Lee Every once in a while I come across a new-dead-body-disposal-concept which I really like. Indeed, I really wish that I had tons of excess cash so that I could start my own dead body technology R&D [...]
12:31 – Killer Photos
4, Apr 2011Project 12:31 Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott via Today and Tomorrow, “12:31″ All DeathRef bloggers will one day answer for their sins of gratuitous and gauche headline puns. But, wow, you gotta check this out. Using cross-sectional cadaver slides from the Visible Human Project as source material, Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott piece together haunting [...]
At the Hour of Our Death Sarah Sudhoff Our worldly possessions speak to how we live, while their particular aesthetics — the whorl of this cushion, the filigree of that doily — hint at personality. In her series, At the Hour of Our Death, artist Sarah Sudhoff explores how our stuff reveals how we die, [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Art / Architecture|Grief + Mourning
- Tags: films, moment of death, video
Artist’s Study of Island Brings the Dead to Life Adam Geller, Associated Press (October 30, 2010) Hart Island Project Melinda Hunt This is a really compelling article about a New York burial ground for unclaimed bodies. Adam Geller, from the Associated Press, wrote a lengthy piece about both Hart Island (the cemetery) and the woman [...]