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Tag Archives: Soulful Expressions
“Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning” Reflects on Grief and Loss
Colombian artist Doris Salcedo uses everyday materials to communicate the incommunicable lessons of mourning
Earlier this year, Harvard Art Museum featured an exhibit called “Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning” featuring works by renowned Bogota-based, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. Salcedo is known for her sculptures and installations that address and respond to the political violence … Continue reading
“The Ivory Mirror” Exhibit Asks Students To Consider Death
Questions about mortality and self are important for young people to think about
A liberal arts college in New England is intentionally making its students think about death and their own mortality. Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, is currently hosting an art exhibition titled “The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe” … Continue reading
American Fallen Soldiers Helps Brings Loved Ones Home Again
How an artist put a project in motion to help the family of a fallen friend
In July, 2006, artist Phil Taylor received some devastating information. His best friend, Blake, who was fighting in the war on terror, had been killed. Stunned and not knowing what to say to Blake’s family, Phil attended the memorial service. … Continue reading
Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum Releases “A Crow Looked at Me”
In his most intimate album yet, a singer-songwriter bares all in the wake of his wife's death
“A Crow Looked at Me,” the new album by Mount Eerie, the solo project of Washington based singer-songwriter/producer Phil Elverum, was written in the wake of his late wife’s death, as he processed the tragic loss and began to come … Continue reading
“Festival of Death and Dying” Builds Attendees’ “mortality muscles”
New festival aims to shift the way we think about mortality
What comes to mind when you think about the words “festival” and “death”? Peter Banki, an associate member of the Philosophy Research Initiative at the University of Western Sydney, hopes you will get curious, and a little excited. Banki is … Continue reading
“Ad Infinitum” — A Photo Series by Kris Vervaeke
Photographs from Hong Kong’s tombstones speak to the fragility of life and the anonymity of death
In the crowded cemeteries of Hong Kong, row after row of tombstones mark the graves of the city’s dead, from the earliest Chinese immigrants to those who have only recently died. In the Asian tradition, many of these graves are … Continue reading
