Comments on: Eye-popping modern reliquaries

Eye-popping modern reliquaries

mediareport — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:21:54 -0800

The Trigger Finger of Santo Guerro, The Skull Fragment of Heilige Krieg, Reliquary for the Extended Family, A Piece of the True Gun and more modern reliquaries by sculptor Al Farrow. [via Eye of the Goof, whose Mr. Bali Hai is also responsible for this previous introduction to the concept]

By: mediareport

mediareport — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:22:55 -0800

I like his beggars series, too.

By: YoBananaBoy

YoBananaBoy — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:39:34 -0800

This is good post. And the photographs creep on multiple levels. Very cool. Thanks for the previously. I missed that one, too.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:14:23 -0800

Witty work! Thanks, me-repor(t)...! (silent "t" a la Colbert, or chunk-style?)

By: fenriq

fenriq — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:26:03 -0800

Very creepy and unsettling. Nice post!

By: Joakim Ziegler

Joakim Ziegler — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:29:48 -0800

The Reliquary for the Extended Family is like the lovechild of the art from the movie Hardware and a Ministry album cover. Two of my favourite things, actually. I like this a lot. I wonder if I'd ever be able to afford something like this. It sucks that most art is so expensive (not that I think it's not worth it, but it puts it out of reach for many people who would appreciate it).

By: atom128

atom128 — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:08:42 -0800

hah. ive been to his studio, he's an aquantance of my grandmothers. small world. interesting guy, and his work looks better in person than it does online.

By: MrBaliHai

MrBaliHai — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:08:54 -0800

Thanks for the "via", mediareport. Your courtesy is much appreciated.

By: Joakim Ziegler

Joakim Ziegler — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:26:47 -0800

I'm a little annoyed by his mangling of Spanish, though. "Santo Guerro", "Santa Guerro", "Santa Guerra", "Santa da Guerra" (although that might be an attempt at Portuguese), we get it already, but it would be "San", not "Santo" in the masculine, and "Guerro" doesn't really mean anything, etc.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:00:05 -0800

Thanks for the "via", mediareport. Happy to point to such a great site. (Isn't it funny that we've gotten to the point where it's unusual to see folks use "via" on the front page? And by "funny" I mean "sad.")

By: Telf

Telf — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:30:36 -0800

Neat stuff.