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Angel of the Bone Church, February 2005

Digital photo-collage and painting.

Oddly enough, the Bone Church is a real place . . . I'd had this idea of placing Angel against a close-up photograph of pelvic arches, cathedral-style, and the title "The Bone Church" came to me . . . I Googled it to make sure I wasn't ripping the idea off someone else (it's unusual that a title just springs to mind like that for me), and I realized that I'd heard about this place, a long time ago, but it had long since slipped my conscious mind . . .

The Ossuary of Kutna Hora is a Christian church which, in the 1500's, was decorated with over 40,000 sets of human bones. It's absolutely unbelievable . . . I've got to go to Prague someday to see it, as well as all the gorgeous architecture :)

Thanks to Madelyn for some of the Bone Church photos I used in this piece :>

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More Angel of Death images:

AngelOfDeath_Illustration

AngelOfDeath_TattooFlash

TattooAngelFresh (summer 2003)

TattooAngelSketch (February 2002)

MaterMetis_2003

AngelOfDeath

Come Undone

The Bone Church

The Bone Church II

AngelWings

Scarlet Halo



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