Textile Patterns by "Hacking Cameras to Death"
When a computer starts acting up, slowing down, or otherwise interrupting the preparation of an important presentation, most people get frustrated, but artist Phillip Stearns gets inspired and has created a line of textiles based on the patterns that emerge when electronics overheat, freeze up, or otherwise crap the bed.
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/08/glitch-textiles/#slideid-203841
Recycling the Dead
Kerry Greville believes that the human body has resource potential after death. The Central Saint Martins student, who's pursuing a master's degree in textile futures, is exploring the provocative notion that we can—and should—extract chemical components from cremated remains
http://www.ecouterre.com/recycling-the-dead-proposes-textile-products-from-cremated-remains/
Sylvia Ji weaves textiles into her beautiful Mexican death obsession...
The Day of the Dead looms large in these macabre yet strangely attractive acrylic on wood paintings, but with Interwoven Ji has moved away from the traditional dress and colonial era ballgowns of her previous collections, introducing shawls and blankets as a distinct but organically enmeshed element. This series also sees more abstract work, with camouflaged skulls made of petals, leaves, birds and animals gently pushing out at the viewer from a nearly continuous background with the effect of an optical illusion, hinting at the decay in nature and the transience of beauty.
Sol de Oro
acrylic and gold leaf on wood panel, framed
36″ x 24″
acrylic and gold leaf on wood panel, framed
36″ x 24″
Susan Silas Dead Bird Photography
COURTESY // ARTILLERY MAG
“Dead birds can be an endless source of fascination. Throughout history, birds have occupied prominent and diverse roles in art, folklore, religion and popular culture. In religion for example, birds have served as either messengers or priests for a deity, such as in the Cult of Make-make on Easter Island where the Tangata manu (bird-man) presided over a competition to deliver the first Sooty Tern egg of the season to the village of Orongo.
Susan Silas, in her most recent exhibition at CB1 Gallery has cast herself both as a modern day purveyor of bird lore and a shaman of bird dreams, documenting through a series of remarkable photographs the process by which these creatures slowly decay and return to the earth…The fact she has chosen to document them in various stages of decomposition speaks directly to our own human need to understand the death process, and ultimately, or more profoundly, to attempt to arrest and control the mysterious and the unknown.”
