Environmental Graffiti

Dead Cassette Tapes Reincarnated As Skeletons

Ever wondered what to do with all those cassette tapes gathering dust on the shelf or lying unused in old shoeboxes? Send them Brian Dettmer. Not for the first time, the Atlanta-based artist has broken the mould with a collection of 3D artworks made by breathing new life into discarded cultural detritus. Cassette tape shells make up the bones of life-sized human skeletons and animal skulls – to create some incredible new forms.

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Incredible Sculptures Made of Raw Meat

“Meat After Meat Joy” brings together the work of contemporary artists who use meat in their work. That’s right, meat - raw meat, the concept of meat, its symbolism and viscera. In their work the artists are seeking to show the paradoxical nature and symbolism of meat, seeking to show the viewer of their pieces how meat is the essence of our bodies but outside of that context holds no identity and how it also symbolic of the death that follows life, following on from what the exhibition’s curator Heide Harty calls one of the ‘seminal seminal works of sixties happening and performance art,’ Carolee Schneeman's Meat Joy performance.

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