Time To Get Silly

Copyright © Edward Riojas

I don’t think I ever told you about my stuffed giraffe. It’s over here in the... HEY!!!

“The Burning Giraffe” Salvador Dalí. 1937. (Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland)

This is what happens when you trim anatomy classes from your MFA schedule.

Illustrations of monstrous humans from “Cosmographia” Sebastian Münster.

1544. (Private collection of William Favorite)

When I said you could make art out of anything, I didn’t mean Uncle Frank.

Tibetan engraved skull.

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When you said you had to do a portrait of a fruit, I thought you meant... Oh, forget what I thought.

“Vertumnus” Giuseppe Arcimboldo. c. 1590.

(Skokloster Castle, Sweden)

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Portion of a colossal head unearthed this past year in Cairo, Egypt.

You said “No” to a cat. You said “No” to a hamster. Did you want a goldfish?

Nooo. You HAD to get a snake.

“The Laocoön Group” Copy after a Hellenistic original from c. 200 BC.