From the Shut Your Aperture archive (2014): the artwork and contributor remarks reflect the original publication period. This series shows deceased animals and may be disturbing.
Beauty in Death by Þórarinn Örn Egilsson
Beauty in Death by Thorarinn Orn Egilsson.
Beauty comes in different forms & shapes, even in death. Death is so close to us and yet so many people prefer to push it away. Death leaves a painful loss and grief that sometimes takes over the good memories and happy moments. Death gets us to stop for a moment and the thoughts and feelings come to the surface that we sometimes do not know or have not allowed to come out.
Each animal has its history. It is interesting to imagine the lives of the animals when they wandered the earth. I asked myself the question, where were they the day before they died? What was the result of their name? Then I felt this sense of freedom”
