Street Anatomy

Ben Tolman

Looking at Ben Tolman’s work you’d never guess that he grew up in a family of “super-hard-core” Mormons…or maybe you would.  He spent his childhood “doodling demons, ghouls, and a grab bag of creepy-crawlies in his many sketchbooks.”  Now he incorporates anatomy into his work as it pertains to death.

Ben says,

I think about death a lot. I’m very aware of the fact that I only have so much time to get this stuff done before the game is over. In the big picture our lives are so short and our perspective is so narrow. I just want to communicate what my experience of being alive was like and add my tiny piece to the cultural pool. Art can be a signpost in time, giving a way to communicate with the future. I just hope I can make something meaningful enough to people that it will continue to be passed on.

[spotted by Varman and via Beinart]