Perhaps "Inspire" was a poor choice of words. Based on Calder's smile, the world ever so sadly lost a loving, kind soul and I'm sure many people did many things as a tribute to his young life.Perhaps "gallows humor" is a better terminology, which is not morbid, but more a recognition of the situation, and that it is better sometimes to laugh (or make art?) instead of to cry or to moan to make it through the task ahead.
But I am still working how to work on work 'inspired' by loss. For the time-being things are disappearing down a black hole...hope to fill it someday, then toss in some worms, and wait for them to work it down to something that will be good fertilizer...better than the usual bull manure, anyway.
Calder (1997 - 2017), 8x10 X-Ray Film (developed at hospital by techs), Pt/pd print or silver gelatin, can't remember which I photographed.
Shouldn't that be "lethal injection humour" these days or is there still consumer choice that includes old-fashioned gas and electricPerhaps "gallows humor" is a better terminology, which is not morbid, but more a recognition of the situation, and that it is better sometimes to laugh (or make art?) instead of to cry or to moan to make it through the task ahead.
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You know Vaughn, that's a black hole that could, and should, never be filled in. Find a decorative border of wonderful memories to surround it with though. That's something that I've never dealt with, and no one should ever have to. Peace brother.Perhaps "gallows humor" is a better terminology, which is not morbid, but more a recognition of the situation, and that it is better sometimes to laugh (or make art?) instead of to cry or to moan to make it through the task ahead.
But I am still working how to work on work 'inspired' by loss. For the time-being things are disappearing down a black hole...hope to fill it someday, then toss in some worms, and wait for them to work it down to something that will be good fertilizer...better than the usual bull manure, anyway.
Calder (1997 - 2017), 8x10 X-Ray Film (developed at hospital by techs), Pt/pd print or silver gelatin, can't remember which I photographed.
Perhaps "gallows humor" is a better terminology, which is not morbid, but more a recognition of the situation, and that it is better sometimes to laugh (or make art?) instead of to cry or to moan to make it through the task ahead.
But I am still working how to work on work 'inspired' by loss. For the time-being things are disappearing down a black hole...hope to fill it someday, then toss in some worms, and wait for them to work it down to something that will be good fertilizer...better than the usual bull manure, anyway.
Calder (1997 - 2017), 8x10 X-Ray Film (developed at hospital by techs), Pt/pd print or silver gelatin, can't remember which I photographed.
I was taking a First Aid course from the Red cross in San Diego back in the 80s. The instructor talked a little about gallows humor and as an example, told of walking around a San Diego neighborhood picking up body parts from a mid-air collision of a small plane and a passenger jet (that a friend of mine was on). Gallows humor was the only thing that got his crew through it.Shouldn't that be "lethal injection humour" these days or is there still consumer choice that includes old-fashioned gas and electric pentaxuser
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