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the aesthetics of decay IV
Roadkill pictures thumbnail gallery.
Be warned: these are not for the squeamish. They're hard for me to look at, and I'm a person who generally makes a point of looking at things that are hard to look at.
It's also worth noting that I'm not really able to "aestheticize" them. It's easy to look at the corrosion pictures and admire the patterns and textures as abstractions. But the roadkill pictures have an emotional force—when I look at these animals I find myself most struck not by their growing abstraction but by their recognizability, by the way they command me to recognize them as beings not unlike myself. |
Monday, July 21, 2003
10:49 PM
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