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Still Life with Steak

It appears to be a painting at first glance, but Sharon Core's "Still Life with Steak" is a meticulously composed photograph, which is inspired by 19th-century American artist Raphaelle Peale's painting of the same name.

"Everything is built on a pyramid,” Core said, "so it appears very solid and aesthetically whole, but the details of the objects belie a more grotesque reality”: the visual assault of a bloody piece of raw meat (and the contrastingly wan, fingerlike asparagus), the tension between painterliness and photographic precision. Heightening the impression of assault, a dry, purplish carrot emerges from the glistening flesh, leading the eye to an unwashed beet lurking behind the fat at right."

I want to grill and then eat that photograph.

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"I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time."

- Banksy

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You and Me

James Clar's "You & Me."

Minimal piece about relationship dynamics. Nine fluorescent tubes have the ballasts and the bulbs separated to create two different words. On the ceiling the nine ballasts form the word "You". Wires hang down from the ballasts, supporting and also sending electricity to the nine bulbs, which are suspended in mid-air and form the word "Me".

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