scum serenade

[leflambeur]

By Tyler Mitchell

[xphaiea]

Cicada emerging

[milksockets]

american cockroach - catherine chalmers (2004)

[reanimateobjects]

[goodmorningm0therfucker]

Daikichi Amano

[cryptonaut]

Eirik Johnson - BORDERLANDS

[wintercorrybriea]

Enfants Riches Déprimés spring 2023

[botherbug]

mantis mouthparts source

[idieinmydaydream]

sickgirl

[grupaok]

Teresa Margolles, Vaporization, 2002 — a room filled with disinfected water vapor from cleaning bodies in morgues in Mexico City — part of the exhibition Mexico City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values, MOMA PS1, Queens

[earnedmagic]

this work plays on ideas of the “invisible dead” a subsection of the “less dead”.

According to Professor Steven Egger, the less dead “are considered less-dead because before their deaths, they virtually ‘never were,’ according to prevailing social attitudes. In other words, they are essentially ignored and devalued by their own communities or members of their neighborhoods and generally not missed when they are gone.“

examples of the less dead include sex workers, addicts, migrant workers, refugees, AIDS patients, the homeless, victims of conflict on foreign soil… in vaporization, viewers are invited to walk among fog created from water that cleansed the lesser dead. their presence fills your nose, your mouth, your ears, dampens your clothes and coats your skin. the separation between you and them ceases to be. horror is in proximity made visible and the broken taboo of intimate touch by the ‘unclean’.

[madness-and-gods]

[cesspoolsiren]

singlechair

[cesspoolsiren]

@lilledjevel

[rhamphotheca]

[reanimateobjects]

[hiyayaya-deactivated20120718]

[dazeylo]

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[dazeylo]

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