Before you leave again, could you show me which of all the bright lights from the sky you've become? So I know where to look whenever I need you. @LiamPayne
Julia Schlosser's cat Alex died on July 19, 2018, and she printed him with sunlight. The Los Angeles artist brought him home, laid four sheets of 11 by 14 inch cyanotype paper side by side in the sun, and arranged his body on top. That's why there's a faint cross in the image.
Cyanotype paper is stained with two iron salts: exposed to sunlight, they turn into deep Prussian blue. Objects on the paper block the light, and where they were, that area is left pale white after the paper is rinsed in water. As long as the sun is bright, this works pretty quickly.
Alex wasn't the first animal whose death Schlosser made work from. Her rabbit, Claire, was euthanised in 2011 after suffering from a painful bone infection. Schlosser brought Claire home, then scanned her on a flatbed scanner while holding her, the rabbit's weight pushing Schlosser's arms against the glass. In 2017, her 17-year-old cat Sebastian was put down after a long illness. Schlosser returned to her vet's office to scan the syringes. She has written that those pictures are still hard for her to look at.
Psychiatry's official rulebook, the DSM-5-TR, leaves this kind of grief out: its diagnosis for grief that won't let up, prolonged grief disorder, only applies to the death of "a person." A recent study of 975 UK adults, carried out by a team from Maynooth University and published in January in PLOS One, found that 7.5% of people whose hardest loss was a pet met the criteria for prolonged grief disorder. The figure was 7.8% after the loss of a close friend, and 9.1% after that of a partner. Among those who had lost both a pet and a human, 21% experienced the loss of the pet as the hardest. Kenneth Doka named this in 1989: disenfranchised grief, a loss the people around you don't treat as a real one.
The print was published in a full-size edition of 500, folded to 11 by 14 inches, so every copy has identical folds. In Schlosser's wall text she's watching him "basking in the Sun for the last time" while the paper exposed. The blue is everywhere the light landed, and the white is Alex.
Deus fez um mundo em que passarinho canta sem plateia, flor nasce onde ninguém vai ver e o céu fica bonito mesmo quando ninguém tá prestando atenção.
aparentemente nem tudo que tem valor precisa provar que tem valor.
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As a mentally disabled person I think that fighting the causes of disabilities is good as long as we don't stop furthering supporting living disabled people. Wanting less people to suffer isn't eugenics, the issue is losing focus on those in need of help because of a 'cure'
i think the most powerful part of this to me is just the fact that sometimes as an artist all you can think to do in grief is make things that keep the one youve lost around for a bit. you draw, write, paint, print, hoping you capture a piece of the one you lost before they fade.
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i loved being able to create a token of appreciation for namjoon’s exhibition. i can’t wait to see everything #RMxSFMOMA has to share with us. i’ll be attending on october 9 for anyone who would like a postcard set 💙
Proud & excited to say that my artwork is currently on display at the @SFPublicLibrary as part of the ARIRANG: Art Inspired by the Album exhibition hosted by @namjooning415
The exhibition is until Feb 2nd. If you’re going to @SFMOMA, take a trip here too! 💜
something about this angle made me realized how much thought niall put into this tribute. he steps away from the mic but the spotlights stay there like liam has a chance to step up to the mic and have his moment ❤️
📰 RM's Collaboration With Marvel Is Going Viral Amid the Return of Blockbuster Avengers: Endgame
Interestingly, the return of Avengers: Endgame has not only reignited excitement around the Marvel Universe but has also unexpectly brought a little-known collaboration between the franchise and RM from around 10 years ago back into the spotlight!
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