…how many people see things like this or this and have the notion that they should get the skull themselves, and then have tattooed on themselves the skull's carvings?
I once gave a pair of skulls to a friend who's an artist. One skull was perfect with full dentition and was prepped as a museum piece, and indeed, had come from a medical collection. The other had no teeth, was beat up, and had been graverobbed after a flood destroyed a Chinese cemetary.
My friend was feeling uncomfortable having the latter skull with him, and felt that maybe he was a part of the former inhabitant's suffering. Now, in an attempt to help end that cycle, he includes that skull in much of his artwork, giving it respect and life again.
PS. The above links are actually to a pretty neat site that's run by a frequent BME contributor…
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