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paper cutouts and pop-up based animation!
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David Choe - Let me get down, just one last time, London, 2009
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“The 5,000-year-old remains of a woman, mummified in the black style (given a clay mask coated with black manganese) and surrounded by whalebone were recovered from the site of El Morro in downtown Arica, Chile, in 1983 “(via Making the Dead Beautiful: Mummies as Art)
“The black style (ca. 5050-2500 B.C.), was by far the most complex. The body was completely dismembered and reassembled with all but the bones and skin replaced by clay, reeds, and various stuffing materials. A mask of clay incised with small slits for the eyes and mouth was placed over the face to give the body the impression of a peaceful slumber. In a technical sense, a black mummy, with its bone and wood inner frame, intermediate and ash paste layers, and external covering of human and sea lion skin was more like a statue than a mummy, a work of art. Today these mummies are extremely fragile due to the disintegration of the unbaked clay.”
chinchorro mummies are incredibly fascinating.
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