Library of Dust 387 - image from the artist website
David Meisel calls himself a photo-archeo-archivist. He recently photographed an insane asylum, the one that served as set for the Milo Forman's movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo´s Nest (1975). Until the 1970´s the unclaimed remains of people who died there were placed inside copper canisters. Leah Ollman wrote in the Los Angeles Times that ..."each canister is a formal, ethical and mineralogical Rorshach."
The prints are of the size of the human body, "a mineralogical portrait of the human whitin".
Full article: Flyp
Artist Site: David Meisel
