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Category Archives: Soulful Expressions
Sam Coulton Designs a New Necropolis
The architecture student has designed an environmentally friendly "city of the dead"
Sam Coulton is a London architectural student who has been looking for a solution to a problem: London is rapidly running out of burial space. According to a 2015 BBC report, nearly half of London’s cemeteries will run out of … Continue reading
Walls of Demand: Father of Slain Student Uses Art to Turn Tragedy Into Change
Manuel Oliver takes his murals on the road to demand change as he grieves the loss of his son
I’m sure we all remember the day. It was Valentine’s Day, just this past February. A former student walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Dade County, Florida, with an assault rifle and killed 17 innocent people — including … Continue reading
New York Academy of Art Students Help Identify Migrants Who Died at the Border
Unidentified remains can be reconstructed to a reasonable likeness
Joe Mullins, a forensic artist with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, cannot give the gift of life back to eight unknown migrants whose dehydrated remains were found in the Arizona desert near the U.S.-Mexico border a few years … Continue reading
Andy Warhol’s “Death and Disaster” Series
The loosely connected works employ repetition to convey our desensitization to death and disaster
Andy Warhol is without a doubt one of the more popular and well-known 20th century artists. Most people associate Warhol with his repetitive, advertisement-based art such as the “Campbell’s Soup Cans” piece. Warhol frequently employed the use of repetition to … Continue reading
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Taryn Simon Marries Architecture to Sound in “An Occupation of Loss”
The artist uses concrete towers and professional mourners to create a community grieving space
Conceptual visual art can be a beautiful medium, especially when the artist uses elements of architecture in the design. However, Taryn Simon’s work “An Occupation of Loss” is so much more than just a lovely structure to behold. Simon uses … Continue reading
The Loss Levels: An Interactive Expression of Grief
A tragedy survivor uses video games to share his experience of loss
On May 22, 2017, a terrorist detonated a suicide bomb packed with shrapnel in the foyer area of the Manchester Arena as crowds filed out of an Ariana Grande concert. Of the 14,200 people who attended the event, 22 were … Continue reading
