Fresh Art: For the Love of God

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"For the Love of God"
The title, “For the Love of God,” comes from a question posed by Damien Hirst’s mother, “For the love of God, what are you going to do next?”

With a nod to British artist Damien Hirst, and a riff on his famous work, For the Love of God, I have created my own Memento mori. My version features costume jewelry pearls affixed to a life-size plastic human skull. The Hirst version is a platinum cast of a human skull covered with over 8,000 flawless diamonds. Hirst hired a dentist to set the teeth taken from the original skull and a team of jewelers to set the diamonds. The asking price for the Hirst skull in 2007 was £50 million. Mine will be offered for considerably less.

Mixed media assemblage, 6.375 x 9 x 9 inches.

Four pints of costume jewelry pearls acquired at an estate sale. The "pearl" neckless's, bracelets and bobbles ranged in size from the head of a pin to about a quarter inch and were thoroughly infused with a heavy dose of Estée Lauder Youth Dew.
Four pints of costume jewelry pearls acquired at an estate sale. The “pearl” neckless’s, bracelets and bobbles ranged in size from the head of a pin to about a quarter inch and were thoroughly infused with a heavy dose of Estée Lauder Youth Dew.
Skull process 4x4
Step by step. The long and tedious process of attaching the “pearls” to the skull.

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