I had submitted this to the animal blog a while ago and just today I saw it was posted in March and has like five hundred re-blogs! Just made my day! :) I shall submit more!
p.s. how did i miss this?
-Magda
Taken by Artmonqui (Magda)
So before I left San Fran I finally went into this store on Haight. I’m happy I did cuz it was awesome! They have some pretty amazing things. My friend whom I saw later that night described it as “demonic” and while I can see how it might be translated that way, I thought it was amazing to see certain creatures like a peacock, taxidermied (is that a word?). Not only did they have cool animals but the way they displayed them was even more interesting. In the back of the shop they have a small gallery where their animals tell awesome stories. I had taken pics of some of the displays along with the very witty descriptions but unfortunately my sd card on my phone was reformatted. :( Luckily they have a site.
Work by Dana Loberg See more of her work at www.danaloberg.com and http://www.socurio.com/myloft/danaloberg
1) The Missing Piece Year 2010 medium: Charcoal on paper. Size: 56’42 inches
Brief Description: There are torn pages from the book “The Missing Piece Meets the Big O” by Shel Silverstein throughout the piece. There is also an original poem in the arm of the child
Brief Description: The wings are made out of feathers and the guitar is a collection of ripped sheets of music paper and bible/scripture for a more textured/mixed media approach.
OUTSIDE THE INSIDE
Mental illness is inside
It’s not physical
So you can’t tell
If someone suffers
A mental illness.
That’s what they say.
That’s what they say
But you can.
It’s written in the eyes
On the face.
We live in a world of in and out
Come and go
Now or not.
When is the last time you looked
Into someone’s eyes
For more than 30 seconds
During a conversation
Or an intimate moment
Or ever?
Depression lodges itself in the lids
Mania stirs itself in the eye
And eyes tell a story
A physical
Gateway
To the inside.
The mental illness that rests
Inside.
As it sits outside
On the face.
