As a rule, I try not to overlap with my partner’s posts, but this one needs elaboration. I have a number of weird art festishes. One is that I love reinterpretations of Da Vinci’s iconic Last Supper (esp. in pop culture). I’ve written about this in the past, and I have a small collection of some of random favorites posted on the wall of my closet office:
I also have a thing for cephalopods. Maybe it’s in my Japanese blood. Daughter CatGirl has indulged this by creating these magnificent works for past birthdays and Christmases:
The middle one deserves a closer look–it’s a perfect mashup of the two–Squid Jesus and Apostles at the Last Supper! Now there’s a messiah worth worshiping.
Can a father feel more loved? Will she try to throw steampunk (squidpunk?) in next year…?
6 responses so far ↓
1 Elaine // Jan 25, 2009 at 10:59 am
Those are so cool, John.
My own personal favorites are variations on Michelangelo’s “Creation of Man” from the Sistine Ceiling. I haven’t collected, but I might have to start now, after seeing your collection.
2 angryyoungwoman // Jan 25, 2009 at 4:37 pm
I love it. Who’d've thought of squid for the Last Supper? How cool!
3 Rich (the fun-guy from Yuggoth) // Jan 25, 2009 at 4:44 pm
How very Cthuluian!
4 Chris // Jan 25, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Oh I wish I still had the reinterpretation of The Last Supper my friend Ryan did when we were freshmen at Ricks College. Ryan digitized a copy of the picture and placed a box of Cheerios on the table in front of Jesus. Ryan gave me a copy that I held on to it for a while but don’t know where it is. I think my mom might have thrown it out when she was going through the closets. It was pretty cool though. Props to Ryan.
5 Chandelle // Jan 28, 2009 at 6:53 pm
That’s a kid worth keeping.
6 xJane // Jan 29, 2009 at 3:30 pm
lol! as opposed to all the ones that just got thrown back *imagines John & Jana on a fishing trip*
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