Linda Spierings and Grace Jones wearing Azzedine Alaïa - “Mode en France” directed by William Klein (1984)
Miyu Kojima Creates Miniature Replicas of Lonely Deaths
Twenty six-year old Miyu Kojima works for a company that cleans up after kodokushi (孤独死) or lonely deaths: a Japanese phenomenon of people dying alone and remaining undiscovered for a long period of time. The instances first began to be reported around 2000, and are thought to be a product of increased social isolation coupled with a greying population.
Part art therapy and part public service campaign, Kojima spends a large portion of her free time recreating detailed miniature replicas of the rooms she has cleaned. A word of caution: although recreated without the corpses, some of the replicas can be quite disturbing.
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An assortment of anthropomorphic transformation masks created by Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples on the continent of North America.
Robert de Montesquiou posing as John the Baptist— on an altar covered with William Morris fabric, no less!
I have no idea why I’ve not seen this before, but leave it to my favourite blog to bring it to my attention.
c. 1885