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Category Archives: Soulful Expressions
Nick Flessa Transformed His Mother’s Possessions into Objects of Art
The stories of a mother's life and a son's grief are revealed in his collection
When Nick Flessa’s mother died in 2010, he faced, as we all someday face, the bittersweet task of sorting through a deceased loved one’s belongings — along with the complicated emotions each object embodied. Nick had to answer the same questions … Continue reading
Art Project “Famous Deaths” Uses Aroma to Capture a Celebrity’s Final Moments
The Sense of Smell project seeks to humanize important moments in history
For many of us, our experience with celebrities is limited to sight and sound. We see images of President John F. Kennedy standing at the podium and we hear Whitney Houston’s voice serenading us through the car radio. But smell … Continue reading
“Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer” by Robert Pope
A Canadian artist chronicled life on a cancer ward before succumbing to the disease in 1992
Cancer treatment is typically brutal and terrifying. The very nature of the “therapy” is at odds with the concepts of survival or healing. In order to get “well,” a cancer patient must agree to subject her body to a host … Continue reading
The English Dance of Death
The tradition of Danse Macabre and the works of Thomas Rowlandson and William Combe
Artistic traditions have dealt with death as a subject for as long as people have been making art. Like most other traditions associated with death, these have often been born out of beliefs both religious and practical. The history of … Continue reading
Vietnam Memorial Traveling Walls Bring Comfort to Local Communities
The mobile "Wall That Heals" can be scheduled to visit your hometown
For those who cannot travel to Washington D.C. to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, a moving replica can come to them. Four Vietnam Memorial Traveling Walls traverse the country. Each displays the names of 58,300 servicemen and women who died … Continue reading
A Bold, Playful Take on the Traditional Funerary Urn
Two Mexico City-based designers are redefining what an urn should be
Early last year, Carrie Fisher’s brother, Todd, surprised her fans by showing up to her mom Debbie Reynolds’ funeral with Fisher’s ashes in an urn shaped like a giant Prozac pill. Fisher had owned the pill for many years, and … Continue reading
