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Impostor version 7,78 the tale of the Involuntary Refusal
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.The Portrait is of Ed Gein. He was a mentally disturbed man who dug up bodies in the grave yard and made clothes out of their skin. He also killed two women before being caught. He was judged unfit to stand trial and was locked up in a mental institution for the rest of his life. He gained a cult following because of the nature of his crimes. People are still baffled by his deeds and he is still an enigma to many.
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.The picture of the two headed baby is an example of a natural mutation. The baby was stillborn and serves as an example of two embryos merging.The babies share most of their organs.Note that the hands have merged to form a strange morphed abnormal shape.
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.The crouching figure is an example of Mayan heroglyphs.This figure is Itzamna the Creator God and also the glyph for the letter D. He is also identified with the maize god as the mayan people thought that man was created from maize.
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.The word Regebantur is latin and it means "they were being ruled"
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.The writing in the bottom of the artwork is Ethiopian armharic letters and it means participant. Partichipant directly written.
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.The last english sentence refers to a day that I saw a corpse lying next to the road at the scene of an accident ,the man was obviously dead because of the position that his body was in.
In this series of Artworks I have played around with the aesthetics of the macabre.My main concern was to illustrate how absurd reality has been in the past.In the future when we take our own reality out of context, things will also seem absurd, even the everyday normal things. I have tried to show how normal the absurd is , when I started this project I was struck by the absurdity of all the images depicted but being subjected to them for a long period of time they have become my norm .So one could say that I have been conditioned and desensitized.
