Things Organized Neatly

[jesse_the_k]

...or, you don't have to Tumbl for the pretty.

Heads: Surrealist portrait sculptures made from found objects, memories and a fascination with medical imagery.
Artwork by EDWIGE MASSART & XAVIER WYNN



Image description: Plaster cross section of human head: brain is a rainbow of dyed seeds; eyebrow is a string of spangles; eye is a compass; teeth are pills; tongue is plumb-bob; other (unknown) anatomy includes comb, jointed doll arm; hand-held postal scale; lead miner miniature; plastic seahorse; printed circuit board and seaglass.

Much more at
http://emnxw.com/heads


The Recipe by siderea

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There's a recipe. It's a recipe for maximally useful-for-engendering-virtual-community-LJ/DW-style. I'm not sure I have it exactly down yet -- this is the alpha version -- but I'm pretty sure that, contrary to a lot of LJ/DW users think, it goes something like this:

Recommended Minimum Weekly Posts by Type:
0.5 diary entry
3 pointers
0.5 bleg
0.25 op ed
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Please read the whole thing: it's encouraged me to post again!
https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/870941.html

Comments

[bibliofile]

Man, those heads are kinda creepy but really cool at the same time. And the artists live in Chicago (always a plus for me, the Chicagoan).

Those skies!

Sometimes, art presents views of things in surprisingly different ways, and every once in a while it shows things the same way you see them too. These folks have managed to fit in both for me. I look at the dawn/dusk sky when I'm under it (though in Chicago I feel the presence of the city more). The other series they've done? Nothing like what I picture in my head at all.

So cool. Thanks for the pointer.

The Skies are remarkable

[jesse_the_k]

...technically, as well. Only a couple have airplanes in them. For me Chicago is airplanes like Rhinelander is mosquitoes.

Where are those trees? How can there be no snow?

More here: http://lapuce007.tumblr.com

The head shots are ... terrifying, really. The artists store bits of nature for later deployment in unlikely places: https://www.instagram.com/p/BSbkG8nA4OC/?taken-by=emnxw

Head 14 (hover over the little white dots for details) is frankly a lot like the inside of my head. There's a Jewish spice tower(1), divided in three bits. Driftwood, thick glasses, some bone with the marrow sucked out, and most relevant, a brain full of stuck beads.

1. http://www.silvercollection.it/dictionaryspicetower.html

[oracne]

The baby arm is freaky!!!

[jesse_the_k]

Very! I think it's from a Madame Alexander doll. After posting I noticed that to its left is a literal wire-frame arm. (Or maybe you were commenting on that one to begin with. In which case, did you notice the white-baby-pink arm to its right?)

[oracne]

It was the baby doll arm that creeped me out.

[sonia]

Wow, those heads are fun! The one you picked stands out to me too.

I love that your description identifies things I wouldn't have been able to name, like the plumb-bob. And I learned that those are sequins, although I like the name spangles too.

ObAnatomyGeeking: seahorse = hyoid bone, comb = cervical spine, circuit board = larynx (?).

I read the posting recipe, too. Interesting. My posting is not so externally motivated! Then again, I don't have a thriving community in my comments (and I always appreciate yours!).

[jesse_the_k]

Thanks for the anatomical additions. Have you had formal anatomy instruction, or did you teach yourself?

I'm afraid these heads will be populating my dreams.

What I liked about the recipe is that a lot fewer "original insightful" posts are required than the jerk brain insists.

[sonia]

Formal anatomy instruction as part of massage therapy school, and ongoing study because of interest.

Yeah, it's not like we give full length academic monologues to our friends in person all the time either. I'm glad the recipe gives you more ease for posting.

[rainbow]

oooh, i love the h eads! <3