**UPDATE – The installation has past.  To find photos and a description of the outcome of Ars Moriendi please see I See Dead People.  Access the post-mortem photographs of participants here. We have become passive observers of death.  American society leaves the orchestration of dying to physicians and funeral directors.  Our disconnection from death influences the health of our grieving processes, our reverence for life and even shapes our relationship with violence and war. “…in many ways, our lives are […]

Categories: Ars Moriendi, Perspiration, Pet Projects • Tags: Alex Berry, Andre Elias, ars moriendi, art, Damon Vecci, death, dying, James McHendry, Jessie Wilson, Mark Verner, momento mori, postmortem