Bastet said:
aargh! this one ?????????????
for one, yes.
i have a great interest in anatomy and that.
as a kid i used to hide dead rabbits and such to see the way they'd decay over time. but we also had a dog, which found out where i'd hidden it.
it's more that everything that happens (round the thin line of life and death) in nature that just grabs me.
the most beautiful moment i had on that perspect was when i was about 8 yrs old. my dad kept a couple of sheep, and it was high-tide for delivering..
so that week my dad kept in an eye at night. one night when a little lamb was about to be born, he woke me up @ 3 am. the sheep had already delivered two, but the third one was tough, and the latter of three mostly dies (in time) - the udder has only 2 spots eh?
it was lying the wrong way, inside, and my dad tried to twist it into the right direction, which worked. the little one came out, but looked quite lifeless... my dad used some ice-cold water, didnt work. he removed all the slime and that stuff from birth, but it still didnt breathe.
4 am, my dad did mouth-to-mouth to the lamb. it lived, and the whole lot of lambs died 2 years later on some kind of spooky disease, dunno. we buried them all ourselves
anyway, i had never seen anything in my life like it. full on impressed, my dad tought me the love for nature.
many occasions more i had to expand that
dunno, i reckon thats why i'm so interested in Hirst's work, besides the fast that i love design and contemporary (conceptual) art.
*turns off blah mode* who cares anyway