Kate MacDowell’s porcelain sculptures are both intricately beautiful and delightfully morbid. The juxtaposition of themes and subjects is crazy good, and so is Held4Ransom’s write up, please click through for the whole thing.
Kate MacDowell / sculpture / 2008-2010
MacDowell creates porcelain sculptures of heartbreaking anatomic beauty. The subjects range from delicate autopsies of birds, rabbits, etc. to a specimen’esque views of internal human organs. In all cases, her intimately realistic renditions evoke deeper metaphors of mortality – each a solemn confirmation of mankind’s intrinsic bond with even the smallest earthly disquiet.
Reblogged from held 4 ransom
