When I put these cropped images from the The Thanatos Archive Facebook page in order, it told a little story that didn’t really need words. But putting a story to images is what I do so I’m going to work on that.
Will you see something? Hear something? Feel something?
There are two days left
until Halloween.
Ready or not
here it comes.
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
When I was a kid
after the first heavy snowfall of the winter
I used to ride a saucer sled down the narrow roads
inside of a local cemetery.
Sometimes we forget- the snowfalls in cemeteries too
and it really is beautiful to see
and even more fun to sled on.
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