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L: Study #1 (154y, 164m at F8 for 4 sec.) R: Study #25 (0y, 100m, at F8 for 15 sec.) from Robert Heinecken Studies by Jason Lazarus

I showed the images above (sans-captions) to my little sister and she thought they were sky or stars! The colors are beautiful. Almost like Carlo Van de Roer’s Portrait Machine Project for the afterlife.

Just received word from Jason Lazarus that he updated his website with a unique new photographic project. Made with a portion of the cremated remains of the artist Robert Heinecken (with the permission of the Heinecken Estate), Robert Heineken Studies is comprised of a set of 25 photograms that were produced sequentially, in one sitting, in a color darkroom at Columbia College.

(via Shane Lavalette)

Jeanne-Claude, the artist who collaborated with her husband, Christo, on large-scale public works that included wrapping Berlin’s Reichstag in aluminum and decking out New York City’s Central Park with sheets of yellow- orange fabric, has died. She was 74.

Jeanne-Claude, ‘The Gates’ Artist With Husband, Dies

WSJ interview with Cormac McCarthy

WSJ: How does that ticking clock affect your work? Does it make you want to write more shorter pieces, or to cap things with a large, all-encompassing work?

CM: I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

That’s intense.

(via Daring Fireball)

“I came upon twin fawns in the display case of a mom and pop toy and science store in Kansas City, Missouri. It took me two years to win the trust of the shop owner and save the money to buy them. A taxidermist spotted a dead deer by the side of the road. He stopped to properly dispose of the body and realized she was pregnant. He opened her and found near full-term twin fawns, he removed and preserved them.

Deer rarely have twins and the taxidermist retained the uterine gesture of their bodies. I built them a vitrine with a light blue base. Their prematurity exaggerates the delicacy of an incredibly sweet thing. The points of their hooves, the length of their lashes, the spots of their hides, nose to small nose in an ur-cartoonish realism … Viewers’ eyes trick them into believing the fawns are breathing. The tragedy of beauty is its transience.

The twins live forever in their own demise. They are sleeping beauties.They have been muses since I first saw them … We dress death in lilies and bronze the names of our dead sons on walls. We erect altars of toys and hold candlelight vigils to express hope. My twin fawns sleep endlessly on their baby blue block in my studio. The twins never opened their eyes yet their wondrous fatality evokes an acceptable alternative to death.”

— Peregrine Honig

I’m not really a sucker for sentimental things, but this just got me.

(via brocatus)

To consider the two strangest [facts of human life] first: birth and death; strange because they are at the same time experiences and not experiences. We only know of them by report. We were all born, but we cannot remember what it was like. And death is coming even as birth has come, but, similarly, we do not know what it is like. Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darknesses. Certain people pretend to tell us what birth and death are like: a mother, for instance, has her point of view about birth; a doctor, a religious, have their points of view about both. But it is all from the outside, and the two entities who might enlighten us, the baby and the corpse, cannot do so, because their apparatus for communicating their experiences is not attuned to our apparatus for reception.

So let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

E.M. Forster — Aspects of the Novel (via erasing.org)

WHERE YOU AT Paul Snowden? – today and tomorrow

I just like this gravestone, which is in Helvetica for a change.

yes!

Life Before Death at the Wellcome Collection | Society | guardian.co.uk

This sombre series of portraits taken of people before and after they had died is a challenging and poignant study. The work by German photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta, who recorded interviews with the subjects in their final days, reveals much about dying - and living. Life Before Death is at the Wellcome Collection from April 9-May 18