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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Apparently not.
Anyway, said friend saw his year 12 final approaching and took 'mixed media' to heart, you might say. What followed was a spate of worryingly late nights with a scalpel ("I sterilised it dude, don't worry!"). The results were pretty mediocre, a few gas-masked oppressors, a shock image of a child pleading to her abusive father (she was also wearing a gas mask). Few little messages about sheeple as well. The only standout piece was one where he had faded the blood into a gradient along the lines of this gorgeous pair of wings (I can't remember what the wings were on - probably a gas-masked angel).
In short, the medium did nothing to reinforce any of his messages, actually detracted from a few of them, and landed him in a big pile of shit with his parents and teachers.
He also got caught up in a flame war with another internet blood artist who insisted that he was nothing but an attention seeking emo, and that using a scalpel proved it.
Apparently having a nurse extract the blood with a syringe for you makes it more hardcore and emotive or something.
I don't know. It might be worth the effort if you have a blood related message to send, but I can't think of any cases where it works out as anything more than a really shitty variety of red paint that dries in clumps and makes counselors try to talk to you.
i'm not one to condone frequently using blood. although there was a guy that did that sculpture called 'self' out of his own frozen blood in the shape of his head. but that just sounds like him trying to be a triggering asshole.
and internet fights are honestly the most stupid things on earth
... the average human head (according to the interwebs) has a volume of 4.9L. The average human contains 5-6L of blood.
He would have had to save that stuff up for months, THEN sculpt/mold it.
Incidentally, 4.9L of blood is enough to constitute ten units of donated blood, which could save thirty lives if the Red Cross is to be believed.
And he used it to make a state of his face.
Better be a damn good statue.
blood can be a cool medium, especially for an installation piece as it goes brown when exposed to oxygen, but yeah you're right in the sense that people use it for the wrong reasons.