Tuesday, April 24, 2012

AN ARCHITECTURE OF ART TO GORE

So Michael created a model of Chichen Itza for a school project.  We know of course of this muy famoso Mayan city in the Yucatan:


Well, here's Michael's cardboard replica:


I thought the model was already fine but it apparently was just the base for his most extensive view of this ancient city.  To wit, from the cardboard he painted the following:




Here's a close-up of what he then created from painted clay:  a man tortured and whose heart was taken out of his body before being placed atop a pole next to the corpse.





Nice, yeah? To be a boy apparently is to be attracted to gore.

Mama's viewpoint on the whole thing is rather sick: she thinks, As long as he creates art from it ...



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