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Category Archives: Soulful Expressions
Seeing Emptiness
Life and death in Mark Rothko's paintings
Staring at the floating colors, I find myself weeping. As my eyes fall into the deep, red abyss, my mind fills the void with everything: love, life, grief, death. The gift of the abstract is that we infill its apparent emptiness … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract art, Art, Color field, Death, Death and Dying, Emptiness, Grief, Life, Mark Rothko, Rothko Chapel Project
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Music Is Life…And Death
Families have their loved one's ashes pressed into vinyl records
Author Kurt Vonnegut once said, “No matter how corrupt and greedy our government and our corporations and our media and Wall Street and our religious and charitable organizations may become, the music will still be perfectly wonderful. If I should … Continue reading
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Tagged Cremains, Death, Memorial Art, Music, Music Is Life, Vinyl, Vinyl Records, Vinyly
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Marks the Spot
Dave Nance's photographic series "Descansos" documents the roadside memorials of the American Southwest
Death, so they say, is inescapable. It is a private affair that plays out in public, and the depths of grief follow the same shifting landscape of public and personal. A death is marked in the public sphere in obituaries, … Continue reading
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Tagged American Southwest, Dave Nance, Death, Descansos, Grave Markers, Grief, Memorials, photography, Roadside Memorials, Tombstones
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Mortal Darkness
Cancer and mortality emanate as darkness in Scottish artist Ken Currie's "Three Oncologists"
Three faces stare back at you, momentarily caught in the light as they turn into a looming darkness behind a curtain. Three men, clothed in gowns that quickly read medical. The illuminated gowns are covers that protect and contextualize these men as doctors. The … Continue reading
Seeking Solace in the Landscape
Memory, visibility and healing at the National AIDS Memorial Grove
Landscape is so central to how we see and move through the world that it is often easily overlooked. When we perceive nature as wild and untouched, we seek solace in the vibrant forces at play, finding our lives dwarfed … Continue reading
Turn Me into Dirt and Flowers
Seattle-based architect, Katrina Spade, hopes that her Urban Death Project will provide communities with a meaningful and ecological option for their bodies after death
Growing up in a family whose idea of a vacation was constructing a chicken coop or putting shingles on a house, it’s no surprise that Katrina Spade chose architecture as a career. Her collaboration with Jamie Corn has produced playful … Continue reading
