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Law and the adventures of cannibals part 3 of 1,4.
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The image on the left depicts a full grown dwarf. This condition is called Achondroplasia dwarfism where the limbs are not proportionally normal compared to a normal adult.
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The image right middle is a copy of a German woodcut from 1482 depicting a Plague doctor opening an ulcer in the lymph nodes of the armpit. Another method that was praised by the doctors was to bind a live pluckered cockerel or a toad over the ulcer.
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The writing at top is the 192nd law is from the law code of hammurabi, from the1700's B.C. It deals with illegitimate children wanting to return to their real parent's because the real parent has a better social standing. This law like most laws are there to protect the rich and to keep poor people in their place. The text reads: "192 if the son of a paramour or prostitute say to his adoptive father or mother, "you are not my father, or my mother." His tongue shall be cut off."
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The image in the middle is a copy of an illustration from the Holkham Bible picture book dating from the later half of the 1300's (1327-1335.). The image depicts soldiers eating the dead bodies of their conquered enemies and the text: "you'll regret it" refers to the words spoken by Reverend Jim jones when he talked about staying alive when he convinced 900 people to commit suicide.
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The writing bottom right is english directly written in armharic the ethiopian letters and it reads: FOLK EUTHANASIA
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The wrting at bottom is latin and it means: Left as a legacy. The text reads: LEGARI
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.
