Tag: Science

• Beauty in Decomposition: An Interview With Artist AJ Hawkins

  

  Death & the Maiden co-founder, Sarah Chavez, talks to artist AJ Hawkins about her recent series, The Reclamation, which beautifully examines the decomposition of human bodies and the nutrient cycle through art.

  Death and the Maiden

  23/05/2017

  Interview, Sarah Troop

  adipocere, Art, blowflies, body farm, cadaver, Corpse, Death, Death Positive, decomposition, entomology, forensics, mushrooms, mycology, painting, Post-Mortem, putrefaction, sally mann, Science, soil

• Best of 2016

  The subject of women and death continued to make frequent headlines this year, as well as issues concerning gender, identity and death, reproductive rights and an examination of our complex and ever-changing relationship to our own mortality. Here’s a recap of what 2016 had to offer from our co-founder Sarah Chavez.

  Death and the Maiden

  03/01/2017

  Sarah Troop

  Abortion, Culture, Death and the Maiden, Death Positive, Feminism, Grief, History, Loss, Science, social justice, Society, Spiritualism

• Sleeping Beauty

  A beautiful work of fiction for you this week from Angie McLachlan. Capturing the essences of a myriad of deaths, feelings and experiences, plucked from her 25 years serving families & caring for the dead through the sacred art and science of Embalming. Making clear this is more than just a job, Angie delves into the…

  Death and the Maiden

  23/05/2016

  Guest Post

  Achievement, Anubis, Art, Beauty, Career, Change, Choice, Deadmaidens, Death, Embalmer, Embalming, Emotion, Experiences, Fairytales, Family, Fiction, Grief, History, Loss, Mortuary, Science, Skill