H-K109: the artist fakes her own death to escape further embarrassment

thanks J.A. x

thankyou anthony :)

thankyou rosemary – it’s a really beautiful and interesting cemetery. the story behind the title is somewhat less beautiful and interesting :)

thank you helmut

oh k! you are the sweetest thing in the whole world!
no need to worry though. just had a disappointing weekend and ended up feeling foolish. i can be pretty naive sometimes – always expecting a fairytale ending.
and anyway your kind-heartedness always restores my faith in humanity. thankyou so much for caring. it really does mean a lot to me. x

thanks catherine – yes, she’s lovely. i found her in an old cemetery in berlin and she reminded me of sleeping beauty :)

thanks very much nadine!

many thanks angie!

thanks carmen – this one is a true shot. the statue is in an old cemetery in berlin and the little bird is something they call a ‘spatz’ (don’t know how to spell it!) I fiddled with the levels and tones in photoshop (naturally) and straightened and cropped but nothing too drastic :)

thankyou cathi!

many thanks jgracephoto

thank you michele. the french composer olivier messiaen thought birds were the intermediaries between humans and angels. i like to think he was right. very sweet of you to stop by and leave a comment.

thanks very much halftone. really appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. and the pleasure of finding you was all mine :)

:) truth is a difficult word to define now isn’t it?
heidegger thought it was ‘that which discloses the real in the image’.
and i like heidegger’s definition because it suggests that the truth is already present in the image somehow – and that perhaps it is not necessary to relate events so embarrassing that one is tempted to fake one’s own death in order to escape them…

thankyou so much khosie! what a wonderful thing to say – so sweet of you.

thankyou jacqleen – you’re such a lovely lady! really appreciate your comments.

thankyou skinnyman
:)
glad you noticed that!

thankyou dragomir

thankyou galia! I’m trying to kick my cemetery addiction but it’s not easy!

thankyou so much shelly!

thanks so much Colleen! had to do something to recover from an unexpected dip in self-image. art is always the solution – glad the title made you smile!

thanks so much Nelson. that’s lovely of you.

thankyou songmistress!

many thanks dragomir

thanks very much arrowman – like trying to snatch pride out of the very jaws of humiliation. . . . what a good idea!

thanks very much redtempa! very sweet of you to comment

thankyou very much hologram!

thankyou my friend.
you know – here i am, a grown woman; even an educated woman, but after a recent social blunder I suddenly thought ‘nothing for it, you’ll have to fake your own death’. It was the kind of thought I’d have had when I was 16 years old – too rare an experience for me to just laugh it off and let it go. So I decided to immortalise it somehow. Imperfect I know, but probably a better choice than actually faking my own death :)

thankyou dragan! posting this image has helped me to find the lighter side of an otherwise uncomfortable memory.

yes, it’s amazing how seriously we take ourselves – it was eye-opening for me to see what a grand and silly picture i had formed of myself. and it shocked me when that picture faltered. maybe the worst vanities are the ones we don’t realise we have – because we believe them. i’ll be wiser next time :)

:) i thought the same thing. if you’ve going to fake your own death you might as well do it like juliet!

thankyou armadillozenith! I’d not thought about the connection between the stone and real birds! but you’re right