Actually have been wanting to write about Dr. Kevorkian ever since I heard about the fact that he was due for parole some time soon. Never got around to it so rather than waste my time trying to make sense of where this correction will end here I am - Finally.
Assisted suicide has always been something that I felt very strongly about and I always felt that while sentencing Dr K for taking the lives of his patients may have been valid in Law, I often wonder if Justice was served by that ruling.
New to the Net at that time I had altavista'd (google was still a faint gleam in its developers eyes at that time) Kevorkian and come across a very unusual facet of his life.
His paintings!
The one that absolutely held my attention was one titled Very Still Life.
An absolutely amazing painting, it works at so many levels.
Does it represent a unconventional but Traditional Still Life painting where the human skull and bones replace the more mundane vase and fruit bowl.
Or is the message far deeper with the solitary flower representing life that still springs forth from a Dead and inanimate set of human life leftovers.
I have always seen this as a very positive image despite its initial weirdness, to the point where I had used this image as the background screen on my cell phone (much to the annoyance of my mom who thought it was absolutely nauseating).
The only time that she ever objected more stridently to my crazy ideas was when she realised that I had used this image as an e-card for New Year (Y2K).
I am not too fond of art, but if ever I did decide to get me a painting for my house it would have to be this one (Hint Hint My Birthday comes up in May there is still time for you guys to go out and bid and buy the painting for me).
Here is a link to some more of his stuff
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