Showing posts with label skeleton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skeleton. Show all posts

Thursday, 8 January 2009

Bone Shakers


"Kinkara, The Dancing Enlightened Skeletons, Pharping (Nepal) in the Gelugpa Monastery on the hill below Padmasambhava's cave". Taken by Wonderlane

Tuesday, 23 September 2008

Dem Bones


"Whilst visiting Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut I saw this beautiful but macabre carved ivory. Only about five inches tall yet so exquisite. I guess it could be called a 'memento mori', something designed to remind us of death". Taken by Mike