Dark Dissolution

Darkness and dissolution. By examining the art and science surrounding death and the dismal trade, the urges to collect and memorialize, and our vague and futile attempts at some form of immortality, we arrive here....

Sunday, January 24, 2010

The Embalming Room

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Photographs of what goes on behind the closed doors of funeral homes and autopsy labs are rare and rightly so. But the empty spaces can be r...

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Monday, January 11, 2010

Casket Catalogue - ca 1911

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I found this amazing collection on good-old-eBay a few years ago. It is a casket catalog from the National Casket Company with a title page ...

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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Putting the FUN in FUNeral

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The Dismal Trade is one based on a long tradition and a somber Gothic aesthetic, even today. White hearses and caskets took a long time to a...

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Collecting: Art vs. Memorializing

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Another aspect of this blog is to examine the act of memorializing the dead. Is it to dampen our fear by surrounding ourselves with reminder...

Monday, January 4, 2010

Wisconsin Death Trip

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A great book from 1973 was Michael Lesy's Wisconsin Death Trip (Pantheon/Random House)(reissued in 1990 and 2000). It fits really well ...

Sunday, January 3, 2010

The Body and its Dissolusion

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When we think about death it is impossible to not consider the effect the end will have on the human body. How are we any different from the...

Friday, January 1, 2010

Starting something New about something Old

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This first day of a New Year brings my attempt to start a blog about endings ... death . "Health is merely the slowest possible rate ...

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the Curator: I collect, I archive, I make art, I question corporeal existence, and eschew all paranormal/spiritual/deist hocus-pocus. See my artwork at www.deadcat.ca

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