 alanocu says: I had never seen this before, and the photographer had no background information. So after reading through the comments on Flickr, someone who lived in the area was able to provide a few more details. And another user found the link to the artist's website. Yes...amazingly beautiful! wow! Extraordinary and very moving. beauty-full. you still succeed 2 sur-prise alan.. -) indeed, no ordinary love, no ordinary passion, no ordinary dream, nor ordinary life - should dare look NOT ordinary ... you know, Sartre - had a theme, (in general & in specific with his non ordinary relations with Simone de Beauvoir), i think he called it "the biographical delusion" saying: life - as you live it, can be highly alike, the life you would like 2b told .... wow, talk about a love supreme. Alan, you found a gem....I wept, this is such a work of love.....  thank you Right, a work of love. Sad, yet tender, sweet. That is really beautiful. I'm glad that your reactions were similar to mine. I enlarged the photos so that I could see more of the detail (check them out: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=ahdf4tpgjkth_384c6cmz7 ) The name of the deceased is Laurence Matheson. I think the dates indicate 1930-1988, but not sure. The sculpture was designed in 1987, so it may make sense that he died the next year. The enlarged photos are really great. The detail of her hair and the hand clasped over the edge is amazing. A deeply moving display of grief and loss. Thanks for sharing this with us, alanocu. An extraordinary work of art and lasting expression of love. But personally it would have been just as effective if she'd had a nightgown on.(leave it to a grandmother to think like that). Hmm.. maybe I'm a cynic, but I could also see this poor guy, who now has a beautiful naked woman, just barely within his reach and she is a stone cold one at that. (Literally) I could easily envision some revenge thing going on from the widow's side if he was a cheating dog or something, but then again, maybe it is just love.  I just asked a buddy and he said and I quote: "AWWW, that would be torture! Hahaha." I rest my case. *LOL* It's interesting that you mentioned that because one of the comments from the flickr photo mentioned an alternative story (or myth): the story told to me is that this guy had a mistress and died overseas in her country - there was a dispute over claiming the body between the wife and the mistress, and the wife finally buried him here she commissioned an italian artist to sculpt a life size naked woman on top of his grave for some reason known to her there is other bits to the story but I don't know what is trueI think it's a definite that the wife commissioned the sculpture. The motive may always be a mystery. I'd like to believe it was done out o... Though it is an incredibly well done sculpture, (no doubt about it) I also find the hair cascading over what would be his face, kind of creepy actually. It almost looks like a smothering. Like being waterboarded with hair almost. *LOL* Haha, how differently different folks can see the same thing. I don't find it romantic at all. I see a subtly devious and wonderfully bitchy way of getting secretly back at a cheater. *LOL* You go girl!! (and I mean the widow.) Haha! I wonder how much that thing cost? It must've been a fortune? I'm not sure I'd spend that kind of money on a cheating scoundrel, but if you have money to burn, maybe that wouldn't matter? She could've stuck him in a field somewhere and made the same point. Getting back at a dead person seems kind of pointless to me, but maybe not for someone else. I would think that shortly before or after someone dies, letting go of the anger might be wise, but everyone's situation is different and everyone has their own way to deal....but  LOL I guess I'd have to laugh if her motives were bitchy or devious - people never cease to amaze me! Look what you made me do alanocu: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/F1BD47DF-454E-4BF7-AF45-199F2E86EB7A I have just spent the last bit of time laughing my arse off after googling "funny epitaphs". Oh my goodness!  LOL! Someone picked up my google docs photos of the large images and now they're on DIGG. An amazing legacy Personally,I'd rather be cremated and have my ashes spread over Liv Tyler.(But that's just me). Great find! LOL I'm sure Liv Tyler would be agreeable to that!  When I die, I want your hands on my eyes: I want the light and the wheat of your beloved hands to pass their freshness over me once more: I want to feel the softness that changed my destiny. I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep. I want your ears still to hear the wind, I want you to sniff the sea's aroma that we loved together, to continue to walk on the sand we walk on. I want what I love to continue to live, and you whom I love and sang above everything else to continue to flourish, full-flowered: so that you can reach everything my love directs you to, so that my shadow can travel along in your hair, so that everything can learn the reason for my song. [b] Pablo Neruda [/b] And grammy honey, it's a lot sexier if she doesn't wear the nightie It is simply phenomenal on every level. Hullo Thorne! Long time no see! It's so nice to see your name and comments again. debbyski just saw your comment above - beautiful or should I say booty-ful.. |
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