death – wewastetime

Lucy Jenkins

05/03/2015

Pieces from East London based Lucy Jenkins‘ collections Brutalis and Mortalis.

2014

01/01/2014

Disaster paintings by Oliver Jeffers (previously posted here).
Happy new year.

there is a war

06/07/2013

Cleon Peterson‘s nightmarish tableaux feature scenes of urban violence, sex, torment and abuse.
His work is currently exhibited at the Outsiders, London.

Birdbox Studio, Wildebeest

26/06/2013

Wildebeest from London animation house Birdbox Studio.

Spooky ex-votos (votive offerings to a saint or to a divinity) illustrating people that have miraculously survived the fall, due to Saint Mary that was present at the scene of the accident.
Check the full collection and more info in original post.
Check some more ex-votos here and here.

1.+A+bricklayer+falls+from+the+roof.+September+3,+1898

10.+Worker+falls+from+a+window.+September+27,+1928

11.+A+little+girl+falls+from+seventh+floor.+July+14,+1879

15.+Two+children+falling+from+a+tree.+February+13,+1892

6.+Man+falls+from+balcony+(another+version)

16.+A+man+falls+into+a+mill.+September+28,+1888

9.+Child+falls+from+a+window.+Nineteenth+century

Everything I Can See From Here

22/04/2013

Short video directed by Sam Taylor and Bjorn Aschim and/ for the Line Studio, that tells the story of two friends, their dog and an alien visitor..

via the fox is black

the day after you die

21/12/2012

3 coffins by New York City-based artist Olaf Breuning (previously presented here) created with the help of specialized carpenters from Ghana.
Colorful fantasy coffins, which are as much sculptures as caskets, are a traditional feature of Ghanaian funeral culture.
Found here.