Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Paul Koudounaris — Heavenly Bodies (2013)

These images are from the book Heavenly Bodies by photographer Paul Koudounaris. You can buy his book here. You can view more of the work of this photographer of the morbid on Empire de la Mort.

In 1578 news came of the discovery in Rome of a labyrinth of underground tombs, which were thought to hold the remains of thousands of early Christian martyrs. Skeletons of these supposed saints were subsequently sent to Catholic churches and religious houses in German-speaking Europe to replace holy relics that had been destroyed in the wake of the Protestant Reformation. The skeletons, known as “the catacomb saints,” were carefully reassembled, richly dressed in fantastic costumes, wigs, crowns, jewels, and armor, and posed in elaborate displays inside churches and shrines as reminders to the faithful of the heavenly treasures that awaited them after death.








Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Timo Stammberger — Underground Landscapes

Timo Stammberger is a photographer from Hamburg. For his Underground Landscapes series, he photographs the subway tunnels of different cities: Berlin, New York and Stockholm.






Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Tor Lundvall — Paintings

Tor Lundvall is a painter and ambient musician. He has also done the artwork for a few neofolk acts such as Sol Invictus. America's landscapes, paganism and solitude are a recurrent themes in his paintings.










Monday, October 7, 2013

Coil — Rosa Decidua (1998) [Featuring Rose McDowall]




Rose, I hear your voice near to me
I've put away the poisoned chalice, for now
And lie down amongst the flowerbeds

Whichever stars we walk among
We both seek out the darkest red
The wine was turned to blood again
Without this blood we'd both be dead

I've wound myself tight into the hedgerows
Let's see which way the winter wind blows

(You are my shadow)


Painting: Georgia O'Keefe — Abstraction White Rose (1927)