Garden Heads — Carolyn Castaño

Projects > Garden Heads

works on paper
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In Garden Heads, the heads of men who may (or may not) have been decapitated are found in lush, tropical landscapes rendered in watercolor and pastel drawing. These works remix traditions of portraiture and botanical illustration while also attempting to gesture (as best as I could manage) at the flood of imagery that is as much a product of the drug trade as the drugs themselves

Garden Head (Kuala Lumpur)

Garden Head (Panama City)

Garden Head (Port of Spain)

Garden Head (San Salvador)

THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A SEVERED HEAD
Mark Dery
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/10/severed_head.php

john the baptist, the war on terror, narco wars, medusa

IV–XIII. As Polysemic Perversity, Abject Object, Undead Fetish, Disquieting Muse, Signpost at the Edge of the Civilized World, Relic of Ancient Barbarities, Face of Contemporary Cruelty, Symbol of Political Protest,
Mind/Body Split made flesh, and Exploratory Probe Launched into the Afterworld

Garden Head (Bogota)

Garden Head (Guatemala City; Sleeping)

IV–XIII. As Polysemic Perversity, Abject Object, Undead Fetish, Disquieting Muse, Signpost at the Edge of the Civilized World, Relic of Ancient Barbarities, Face of Contemporary Cruelty, Symbol of Political Protest, Mind/Body Split made flesh, and Exploratory Probe Launched into the Afterworld

IV–XIII. As Polysemic Perversity, Abject Object, Undead Fetish, Disquieting Muse, Signpost at the Edge of the Civilized World, Relic of Ancient Barbarities, Face of Contemporary Cruelty, Symbol of Political Protest,
Mind/Body Split made flesh, and Exploratory Probe Launched into the Afterworld