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Playing the blind card for post mortem procedures.
Explanation of artwork
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.The writing at top left is english directly translated into armharic writing and it reads: The blind card. It is a reference to beggars acting blind to get sympathy.
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. The image to the left is a Mayan glyph that depicts the god of death; Cizin which is also the glyph for the letter A.
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.The writing at the bottom is latin and it means:You will be prevented from paying the debt with money. It reads:DEBITUM NUMERARE PECUNIA PROHIBEBIMINI.
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.The image at bottom right is a copy of a 1479 A.D. woodcut depicting Nero and Popea made by Anton Sorg.
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.The writing at the top right is from a textbook called Post-mortem procedures and this is explaining how to make an incision on the face.The text reads: The palm of the free hand is placed on the outside of the lower jaw to steady it while the knife is carried along the inner ear, dividing the neck muscles attached to the inner ear.
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.The main image is that of a boy with Simmond's disease which is extreme and progressive emaciation, loss of body hair, and premature aging caused by atrophy or destruction of the anterior lobe of the pituitary.
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.
