May 16, 2010: Dem Bones II

[xoxoxoBruce]

Unlike Dem Bones I, Dem Bones II aren't animal bones.
Francois Robert used human bones to make these pieces.

"Bones have always fascinated me," says Robert. His portfolio has always included images of animal skulls, recovered from the desert. He once spent five weeks photographing skulls in the collection of the Field Museum of Natural History. By 2007, the recession was taking its toll. "I had so much extra time. What was I going to do with it?" He turned to the skeleton in his locker.
Robert realized that his skeleton was limited: it was wired together for display. He decided he wanted a skeleton he could take apart. Online, he found a source for disarticulated human skeletons, and he traded his in, and took delivery of a box containing 206 separate bones, each the real thing, not plaster or resin.

He arranged them into a picture, photographed it, then tore it apart to make the next piece. Better than becoming a serial killer, or grave robber, I suppose.

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