breaking down the corpse in art
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all manner of the macabre.

d_composition is an art historical take on the body hereafter. Formed at the intersection of visual culture and death, it’s aimed at those who rubberneck for anything morbidly curious. We welcome the presence lurking in the dark, believing that by talking about ‘it’, we cultivate empathy & understanding. 

hand of a hanged man
Maya Love Maya Love

hand of a hanged man

The hand of glory is not only one of the weirdest things I’ve happened upon, but it’s wildly complex to make and has the most weirdly specific payoff. Fortunately, courtesy of the Peti Albert, an 18th-century grimoire of folk magic, I’ve got the down low on the how-to.

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