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Title/Name: Big Brain Prison Wojak Series:  Brainiak (Variant), Yes Honey (Variant). Image by: Unknown Main Tag: Big Brain Wojak

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Alta Cocina, Santiago Caruso, 2018

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Alfred Fredericks - Victory

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Looking in the Mirror

acrylic painting on canvas

size 23x23

2021

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The Hundred Ghost Stories That Led To My Death | Matono Anji

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She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea.

Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

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Hermann Nitsch

action painting, 1962

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“This is the tragedy: consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of uselessly striving to be something other than what we are—hunks of spoiling flesh on crumbling bones.”

— Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

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'man in bloom' by bruce metcalf, 2001 in corporal identity body language: 9th triennial for form + content, usa + germany - museum of arts + design (2004)

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Necklace worn by Executioner

Executioner's chain of office, 19th century, Africa

From the Science Museum of London / jstor

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standing reindeer carcass

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From the August 4, 1974 profile of Christine Chubbuck, a newscaster who committed suicide by gunshot live and on air (x)

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The pit of hell at Wat Rong Khun in Chiang Rai, Thailand.

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Gashadokuro statue at the Mizuki Shigeru Road in the Mizuki Shigeru museum.

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Livor mortis (livor meaning “bluish color” & mortis “of death”), postmortem lividity, hypostasis or suggillation, is one of the signs of death. Livor mortis is a settling of the blood in the lower portion (in most cases) of the body. This causes a purplish red discoloration of the skin. When the heart stops functioning & is no longer agitating the blood, heavy red blood cells sink through the serum (the clear stuff we know as plasma) by action of gravity.

Livor mortis starts 20 minutes to 3 hrs after death & is congealed in the capillaries in 4 - 5 hrs. Maximum lividity occurs within 6 - 12 hrs. The blood pools into the interstitial tissues (the spaces between the cells) of the body. The intensity of the color depends upon the amount of reduced hemoglobin in the blood.

The discoloration does not occur in the area/s of the body that are in contact with the ground/another object in which capillaries are compressed (a simple example of this is to press firmly down on the tip of your finger for a few seconds and the skin will be white/pale for a few seconds, this is because you’ve temporarily slowed down the blood flow into the tissue you have put pressure on). As the vessel walls become permeable due to decomposition, blood leaks through them & stains the tissue. This is the reason for fixation of hypostasis (hypo meaning “under” or “beneath” & statis “standing”).

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whale necropsies. excerpted from "how to draw a sperm whale," how far the light reaches: a life in ten sea creatures, by sabrina imbler

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Word on the Street