{"id":2359,"date":"2013-10-05T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T17:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weirderthanyouthink.wordpress.com\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:58:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T10:58:53","slug":"fox-skull-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/fox-skull-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox skull memento mori"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/fox-skull-chris-madden-1818.jpg\" alt=\"fox skull memento mori\" class=\"wp-image-2360\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fox skull: memento mori<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Photograph. &nbsp; &nbsp;2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A photograph of a fox&#8217;s skull.<br>Nice abstract sculptural quality I think, accentuated by the lighting and the simple composition.<br>Like many people, I find bones, especially skulls, very evocative. I think that it&#8217;s possibly a mix of the aesthetic qualities of the physical form of the bones and a realisation of what they actually are. They are a very concrete reminder of the transience of life:&nbsp; memento mori.<br>You&#8217;d have to ask an evolutionnary psychologist what it is that makes them aesthetically pleasing, or indeed what it is that makes anything aesthetically pleasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox skull: memento mori Photograph. &nbsp; &nbsp;2017 A photograph of a fox&#8217;s skull.Nice abstract sculptural quality I think, accentuated by the lighting and the simple composition.Like many people, I find bones, especially skulls, very evocative. I think that it&#8217;s possibly a mix of the aesthetic qualities of the physical form of the bones and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8309,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions\/8309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}