Journey of Colin Cherlin....wk10

     In his final showing, Colin Cherlin, per the wishes left behind to his estate, expressed his dying sentiment.  It is well known that in the latter years of his life, Colin began to develop a bitter taste towards the direction he felt society was heading.  His final work represents that bitterness.  His body, encased in a sealed in a Plexiglas coffin, was to decimated and picked clean by dozens of skin beetles for all to witness. 

Journey of Colin Cherlin....wk9

This is one of Cherlin's more controversial pieces know as “The Cocktail Party”.  This instillation has two popular interpretations. The first is that the contrasting character is the life of the party, spreading the “spirit” of drunkenness to all the party goers.  The second lies within the rumors of Colin’s prejudice towards the homosexual community and that this was a message in the wake of the introduction of the AIDS virus.

Andrew Klein, final homework

This skull was created similar to Damien Hirst's "For the Love of God". Unlike the original, there are about 1/2 the amount of diamonds in the cg version, which is rendered using MIA and Dialectric materials in mental ray.