There Goes The Neighborhood

If you could choose your headstone or statue , something to to sum up your feelings about life and death, what would you choose?

I learned this in a screenwriting class I took- go big or go home.

This is what I want- I want this statue walking towards my grave because 

in stone, in marble this statue holds inside of it exactly how I look at life.

Plus it is creepy as hell. The expression on the figures faces are a million times scarier

then any gargoyle’s face.

One last thing.

 I want to buried next to someone who put their favorite fudge or cookie recipe on

their headstone.

Go big or go home.

Fate by Hugo Lederer (1896) Fate drags a man and woman by their hair through the grass toward the Von Schröder mausoleum. Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Hamburg.

Very interesting article on Von Schröder Mausoleum   as well as interior shots of   Mausoleum itself  HERE

For RDP Thursday: VESSEL

7 thoughts on “There Goes The Neighborhood

  1. Reflections of an Untidy Mind – Tracy lives in Australia. She is passionate about the environment, her family and her dogs. She is a Type 1 diabetic of nearly 50 years. In her spare time, which is hardly ever, she is a mosaic artist. She is interested in what makes people tick and why they do the things they do. Her blogs will encompass important social and environmental issues, plus more mundane subjects like her experiences in dealing with a chronic medical condition and unruly dogs.
    Reflections of an Untidy Mind

    Creepiest thing I’ve seen all day, Anita.

  2. bushboy – Landcare, photography, music, poetry (of sorts), cooking, our environment, life on the land and making a difference where I can. MotoGP is my "boy" fix.
    bushboy

    That is one fab sculpture. Love it 🙂

    • Check out the link at the bottom of my post- it’s a good article and there are pictures of the inside of the mausoleum.

  3. marialberg – I am a fiction writer, poet and lyricist inspired by a life of leaping without hesitation. I was quoted and pictured in Ernie K-Doe: The R & B Emperor of New Orleans by Ben Sandmel. My short stories have been published in Five on the Fifth, Waking Writer, and Fictional Pairings. I am the author and photo-illustrator of Gator McBumpypants picturebooks. I enjoy clothing, costume and puzzle design.
    marialberg

    Whoa 😱 That statue has the creepy that doesn’t stop. I would not have imagined the full bodies being dragged behind.

    • That’s the part that got to me-it’s not what you see coming towards you it’s what you see from the side or behind it. Awesome.

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