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Artist to exhibit dad's ashes

Written by DeadGirl

Thursday, 22 March 2007

Wellington - A New Zealand artist is planning to exhibit his father's ashes, saying he was "much more useful dead than he ever was alive", a report said on Thursday.

Nigel Madden, from Napier in the North Island, previously exhibited photographs of his father Neville, an alcoholic and one-time radio announcer, lying on a mortuary slab after suffering a fatal heart attack.

The photographs shown last year in the Norsewood Art Awards offered an insight into his dysfunctional relationship with his father, Madden said.

This year Madden plans to display his father's ashes in a pewter urn, he told the Dominion Post newspaper.

"So, my father's remains function as a symbol and a stand-in for art," he said.

Madden quoted Spanish painter Pablo Picasso as saying "in art one must kill one's father".

"It's not often that you get human remains to work with," Madden added.

The work would be for sale for NZ$2 000 (R10 351), though the artist admitted he was not hopeful of finding a buyer.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Entertainment/Off_Beat/0,,2-1225-2107_2087151,00.html

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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“By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.”

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If to be useful is our beings end and aim,
Then this high excellence, our friend might claim.
For this she lived, for this she spent her breath,
Nor ceased her acts of kindness, but with death.

Dedham. MA 1841