A symbol of mortality... or a big-ass skull?
Yes this is a four-storey size "work of art" on the corner of La Trobe and Queen Streets.
Called Ambassador by German artist Mariele Nuedecker, hopefully it won't cause too many car crashes.
According to Gabriella Coslovich of the Age: "A skull is a loaded image at a time of military conflict and terrorism, and Neudecker's work belongs to the "Vanitas" genre tradition of art, which uses the skull as a symbol of mortality."
The site's curator, Juliana Engberg also said: "Mortality is always confronting, and that's the point of the Vanitas, but, of course, it's also a contemplation of a life lived — have we lived a good enough life?"
Interesting... for the Melburnians among us, what do y'all think of this billboard? Been past it? Did it cause you to drop your lunch?
What do the rest of you think?
posted by LX @ 3:16 AM
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