Did you notice that it is always easier to attract attention, when instead of some lovely flowers you put a skull in your work.
Skulls have been for ages the symbol of a large number of subcultures, but only recently became widespread even in fashion.
Only nowadays it needs more than wearing a skull to make you an outsider.
Could it be that out of fear from death this visual has so much attraction on us... and that way we exorcise this fear?
Skulls might be popular as decoration because they are one of the few socially acceptable ways to address death.
Whatever the reason, I know some bone covered crypts and especially one of them where it is written into the floor:
"What you are, We once were, What we are, You will be."
"Enclosing your mind"
art & motion by Werner Hornung
It looks very nice on the big TV screen and will even look better and much bigger together with many other visuals that I've made for this HipHop event taking place at the end of November in London.
That way skulls may dance together with future skulls.
The better you look the more you see