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The piper and the whore-house.
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The large image on the left is a depiction of Marcel Marceau the man who made mime an art form. He is ranked as one of the greatest mimes and performers if not the greatest of all time.
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The writing at top is in latin and its translation is: "They speak about the death of living beings." The text reads: De animalium morte dicunt
3.
The writing in the middle is in old german and it is from The Lueneburg manuscript (c. 1440–50) It refers to the Piper of hammelin (in brightly colored dress) and how he came and took away 130 children to the hills (koppen). The text reads: "Anno 1284 am dage Johannis et Pauli
war der 26. junii
Dorch einen piper mit allerlei farve bekledet
gewesen CXXX kinder verledet binnen Hamelen gebo[re]n
to calvarie bi den koppen verloren
4.
The image on the right is the skeleton of a man who was suffering from extensive Paget's disease. All the bones are thick and bent. The skull is enlarged and thick.
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The image at the bottom is a copy of a woodcut made by Anton Sorg in 1479 A.D. Lynceus and Hypermnestra from Sorg's edition of boccaccio.
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The writing at left is english directly translated into armharic and it reads: INHIBITION
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The writing in the bottom right reads: HERESY
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.
