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- enkideridu, on 05/26/2009, -1/+48"Using skins from white men who donated their bodies to medical science"
I don't see how this is helping medical science - malcolmlo, on 05/26/2009, -0/+27Fava beans. Chianti. Etc. /end joke
/begin serious thought...
Also interesting how he managed to procure the skin from those who donated their bodies to "science". I appreciate his art for its bold statements, but it is a little shady using "science donor" skin to do so. Do you think if the people knew their skin would be used in his art they would still approve? Donating your body to science is alot different than donating your body to art. In creating a commentary on morality and ethics he himself is being a bit unethical and immoral. However that contradiction in itself could be seen as a commentary on the American system. The fact that he was able to legally "steal" people's skin and make art with it is a moral/ethical statement in itself. - Lederhosed, on 05/26/2009, -4/+30Put the lotion in the basket!
- Haoie, on 05/25/2009, -2/+27Nice job, Buffalo Bill.
- ThePhone, on 05/26/2009, -4/+19It puts the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again.
- MonkeyNews, on 05/26/2009, -0/+9Do you think I would be thrown in the nut house if I showed up at the exhibition and stared to eat his map of America.
I would do so only in the name of art. A commentary on American consumer culture. - inactive, on 05/26/2009, -1/+10Yeah, stained ass lampshade...
- Bagos1, on 05/26/2009, -0/+8I suppose you're right.
Do you prefer breast or leg? - skratakh, on 05/26/2009, -0/+8In the past you used to be able to get books and diaries etc bound with the skins of murderers etc as a sort of grim souvenir after they were executed.
- popzero, on 05/26/2009, -4/+12Maybe when he paints he uses Soylent Green.
- enkideridu, on 05/26/2009, -1/+9to be fair, most of the leather we use come from cows, and they don't need it anymore since we killed them for their meat too.
They'd still die, there'd just be a lot of wasted leather.
To truly save the animals, we'd have to switch to eattng human meat too. - Rudegar, on 05/26/2009, -0/+7"men who donated their bodies to medical science"
so can you somehow donate your body to science and be sure it's not used in art and craft ? - jsmith212600, on 05/26/2009, -0/+7I have the best Afghan throw blanket and some pillowcases from this guy. They really tie the room together.
- asgardshill, on 05/26/2009, -1/+8If your "models" had some really nice tats, can you make a Tiffany lamp out of that *****?
- garlicdeath, on 05/26/2009, -0/+6I'm more of an ass man, myself.
- inactive, on 05/26/2009, -0/+6Can I at least get to see a pic of the lamp-shade, instead of pondering what part of the body he chose to craft Florida?
- Jektal, on 05/26/2009, -0/+6Maybe he gets the skin after the med students remove it?
- TruthKid, on 05/26/2009, -1/+7This is much better then the wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man made out of foreskin at the dealer down the street.
- inactive, on 05/26/2009, -5/+10Wow, he's such a shocking, contreversial artist. OHh he's soooooo artsy.
pfft.
medical science my ass. - TheSeanFace, on 05/26/2009, -0/+5Anyone else find this interesting and not "shocking" or "macabre"?
I am suprised he managed to get that much skin though, to do an entire exhibition surely he would have had to find a legal avenue. - bashnu, on 05/26/2009, -0/+5Overloaded symbolism.
- thelimopit, on 05/26/2009, -0/+4He would just say it raises awareness of, um, skin. And that's a damn fine cause. Everybody takes skin for granted. The skeletons are jealous.
- zip000, on 05/26/2009, -0/+4It rubs the lotion on its skin.
- LonelyTylenoL, on 05/26/2009, -4/+8Sounds delicious, SIGN ME UP!.....
.......I, I mean what a horrible thing to do.....shame on him for taking advantage of human skin.... :^X - amoirae, on 05/26/2009, -0/+3Ed Gein does art now?
- MonkeyNews, on 05/26/2009, -0/+2Good point - his art is self referential. Lets go with "He meant to do that.....yeah",
- garlicdeath, on 05/26/2009, -0/+2Why is he getting credit for making things out of skin? I have a whole body made of skin.
- thorstrongstone, on 05/26/2009, -0/+2Yep. The Library of Congress has a few which, if you get a readers card, you can touch and look through.
- Wypie, on 05/26/2009, -0/+2"Everytime I see a homeless White Man, I cry. I think to myself, 'What a waste of white skin" -Paul Mooney
Mr. Mooney should speak with this guy and let the hilarity ensue. - bengerman80, on 05/26/2009, -0/+2I'll have...umm...3 backs...an arm pit....three eyelids..no..make that 4 eyelids...a set of phalanges and a belly button ring please..
- Jektal, on 05/26/2009, -0/+2Man, I used to have a rug that really tied the room together...
- Rudegar, on 05/26/2009, -0/+1sounds like a good way to be raised as a zombie sooner or later :O
- bromac, on 05/26/2009, -4/+5I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
- Bagos1, on 05/26/2009, -2/+3This good. We can protect endangered species now by switching....just love the change.
- inactive, on 05/26/2009, -0/+1So people dedicated their bodies to MEDICAL SCIENCE and this f'ing idiot gets a hold of them for ART?!?!?! They should make a week-long television show where we cut a square inch of this guy's flesh off every 5 minutes until he's dead.
- shaelen, on 05/26/2009, -1/+2They are dead, they don't care.
- enkideridu, on 05/26/2009, -1/+2interesting point
I wonder if any of the donors were racist?
I'm no supporter of racism, but to use a dead person's skin to make a moral commentary favoring an opinion the person did not support in life seems pretty distasteful,
btw interesting syntax, does the '/' signify a comment or a command? - inactive, on 05/26/2009, -0/+1Are you Marilyn Manson?
- thorstrongstone, on 05/26/2009, -0/+1Yeah, but yours is all covered in liver spots and rotting sores.
- GoodOldNeon, on 05/26/2009, -0/+1all you people complaining about ethics and morality, blah blah blah...
I don't get your argument.
1) The dead people don't care. They gave their bodies up to people who were just going to cut it open and effectively desecrate it. it's not "their" skin. They don't own it anymore. you don't take that with you when you die. there is no "soul" and if there was it would not be contained in their skin.
2) It's just skin. it's not any different from animal skin.
3) he didn't kill anyone to make this stuff. it's not like he started a long, costly, illegal war with no evidence of WMDs in order to fund war profiteering.
this is your visceral reaction. good art can do that to you in case you didn't know. "don't shoot the messenger" applies to artwork as well. - ducttape36, on 05/26/2009, -0/+1or else it gets the hose again.
- Bagos1, on 05/27/2009, -0/+1That would be rump.
- eelwrolyat, on 05/26/2009, -0/+1Except Ed secretly dug up the bodies of freshly buried corpses, and he did a LOT worse than make a few small item out of skin.
- MOJIRA, on 05/26/2009, -0/+1Yes; by burying yourself you are donating your body to the scientific law of decomposition. Every atom that you were will be transformed into something else. Eventually after thousands of years it will have decomposed, turned into fertilizer for plant life, which will be eaten by an animal which will be killed and eaten by a human and when that human dies and donates his body to science someone will make a skin art exhibit out of him and thus the great circle of ***** up ***** is complete.
AAAASSSSIIBBEEEMMYYYAAAAHHHNIIBAANABICHINABOOOOHHHH - MOJIRA, on 05/26/2009, -0/+1I dare say that someone would find your actions very deep and thoughtful. I on the other hand would find it extremely funny.
The only thing more amusing would be if this art installation was at a burn victims' ward in a hospital. - teamgwho, on 05/26/2009, -3/+3it's art that's meant to have a social statement. dole and Gingrich can go ***** themselves.
you want something truly heinous, check out what happened to Antoine LeBlanc after he was convicted of murder
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murde ... - immatellyouwhat, on 05/26/2009, -1/+1THE *****???
- jsmith212600, on 05/26/2009, -1/+1You thought refolding the paper map was hard! The thing barely fits in my glovebox. Thanks AAA.
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