Carla Valentine Instagram – It’s spooky season and skulls are apt, but I particularly love this dripping orange skull – it has a real vibe of candy melts. It’s one of many “Vanité aux Papillons” by French artist Philippe Pasqua 🦋 💀 From what I can gather, some of his pieces from the “Vanities” series are sculptures, but others are real skulls. His site says:
“Another major aspect of Pasqua’s work lies in his series of Vanities’. The technique employed evokes that of the silver and goldsmiths of the Middle Ages working on a reliquary, and also some kind of shamanic ritual. He covers human skulls with gold or silver leaf. Sometimes, he covers them in skins and then tattoos them. Then there is the delicate stage where the skulls are decorated with preserved butterflies, with their outstretched wings and their iridescent colours: the light is refracted on their coloured, powdery surface, or falls into the deep shadows in the eye sockets. He also sometimes pours liquid paint in a thick stream that covers everything and submerges it.”
As symbols, both the skull and butterflies are associated with death and mortality: the skull is an obvious one, and butterflies represent the soul, the passing of a loved one, and rebirth. At this time of year – approaching Samhain (pronounced SOW-en) – the veil between the living and the dead is supposedly at its thinnest,
Check out his work – all the skulls are lovely and he was originally inspired by his friend Damien Hirst so if you’re a fan of his, you may like Pasqua
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