Dead Stuff

by Linda Neaman

A surprisingly lively compendium of dead stuff. “Guts are not so delightful”, said Neaman's six year old niece as they examined a squished frog on a country road.This observation was the catalyst for Dead Stuff—a curiousity cabinet of images and text. This collection is like a Japanese zuihitsu (an expanded list) of some of Neaman's favorite death related images embellished by myth, song, an augury, observation and descriptive captions. Memory is preserved in a tombstone, life is revealed in the work fractured bones of the slaves buried in New York City’s African Cemetery. Dead stuff is not so dead.

44 pages, Paperback

First published July 13, 2012