fer1972:

Bored With My Old Hairstyle by Fathi

fer1972:

Sergey Vlasov

streetdragon:

merylpataky:

Lead Lungs © Meryl Pataky

Fe, Pb, C

14 x 12 x 6.5

Lead is a main-group element in the carbon group. Lead is a soft, malleable metal. It is also counted as one of the heavy metals. Metallic lead has a bluish-white color after being freshly cut, but it soon tarnishes to a dull grayish color when exposed to air. Lead has a shiny chrome-silver luster when it is melted into a liquid. Lead has the highest atomic number of all of the stable elements. At certain exposure levels, it is a poisonous substance to animals as well as for human beings. It damages the nervous system and causes brain disorders. Its melting point is 621°F, significantly lower than any other metal.

Culturally and symbolically, lead, because of its density, is the reification of gravity, both physical and intellectual, and is the chemical element most closely associated with death itself. When we speak of a leaden sky, it is not only the color we mean: the gravitational impossibility of the image presages worse than rain. Lead sarcophagi are traditionally used to preserve the bodies of popes and kings to ensure that the soul does not escape. 

Lead does not corrode, and so preserves what it contains, because it forms a surface layer which blocks further chemical attack. It is this thin layer that ultimately preserves the roofs of many of the cathedrals and churches of Europe.

Lead’s weighty relationship with gravity and its connotations of the ultimate collapse – into the tomb – are but the most extreme of its various associations with fate and falling. When we agree to leave a matter to chance, we let the chips ‘fall where they may’, governed not by us but solely by the laws of physics. One of the secondary meanings of the German noun fall is simply ‘event’, something that happens or befalls. And a fall gains emphasis if what falls does so heavily. A heavy fall is decisive. For this reason the Romans made dice out of lead. In parts of central Europe where lead ores are abundant, a custom has grown of predicting the future by pouring small quantities of the molten metal into water. 

The profound and contradictory meanings of lead – fortune and fate, creativity and destruction, humor and seriousness, love and death – has inspired me to employ it in my work. My Lead Lungs are prediction of my own fate at the hands of my materials and a reminder of the involuntary and invisible mechanism of life. The human body breathes in and out between 15 and 25 times per minute without a conscious thought or effort. 

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streetdragon:

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vinomaryandani:

The Skull

This artwork, I created for my deepest regret. Even many colors is filling the artwork but it’s still the skull. The skull is who represent the failed and the lost of me.

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hotphotography:

Non, je ne regrette rien!

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fer1972:

Agony aunt column illustrations by Neil Webb

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just-art:

Illustrations by Molly Crabapple

fer1972:

Ryan Lake 

ryandonato:

Daniel Firman

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milktree:

ok

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ryandonato:

Jeffrey Meyer