Rebecca Connell; Fine Art: Textiles

“Forgotten Fatalities”

"My work challenges the audience’s inherent ideas surrounding beauty. It plays with the boundaries of revulsion and attraction, blurring the confines of what constitutes aesthetic pleasure. The pieces focus on animal carcasses, transforming everyday forgotten fatalities into delicate studies of mortality. These casualties, which previously incited feelings of disgust, now represent the exquisite sadness that is death. The grotesque becomes beautiful and the melancholic becomes enchanting." Rebecca Connell

Image and text kindly provided by the featured artist, Rebecca Connell.