"Death Ritual" by Troy's Work Table. Nighttime carport chalking for Wednesday 18 November 2015.
Charcoal, sidewalk chalk, chalk pastels, walnut ink.
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Lawrence Weschler calls them convergences. The various stories of death rituals that are swirling around me could no longer be ignored, especially after I sketched out a rough draft of this piece in pencil and dreamed about laying it out on concrete.
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Studying Flemish and Dutch vanitas paintings of the seventeenth century.
The Child studying mummification in ancient Egypt. The Child reading about mummification in early South American cultures.
A fellow writer talking about experiencing death rituals among the Toraja people of Sulawesi, Indonesia during travels this summer.
The longed for death in battle by Vikings in order to be one of those selected for Valhalla.
Goya's "Los desastres de la guerra" series of etchings and aquatints.
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The Wife commented that the figure and chair remind her of an electric chair—another form of death ritual.
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It was interesting to add the walnut ink as "blood" beneath the animal heads. There was something ritualistic in its own right about using a turkey baster to apply the ink to the concrete "canvas."
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The carrion crow as scavenger and spirit..
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The offering of fruits.
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