Addendum to Père-Lachaise posting (by Mitch Sisskind)

Apropos of the post below, cemeteries and cemetery art are a longstanding interest of mine. The sensuality of some of the sculptures can be very stimulating, just as there's real poignancy to the golf balls and cans of diet soda that I saw on graves in an obscure "slab orchard" in Hawaii.

Here are two favorite sculptures that I found online. I think they're from Pere-Lachaise but they might be from another cemetery. In this one, a beautiful angel ushers a poor schmuck into his final resting place. She doesn't look happy about it but she has a job to do. And as for how he feels about the situation, well, the artist has avoided the need to interpret his face by just showing us his ass, which does have a certain eloquence of its own ---->>>

Here's a ghostly couple who may have just met at the cemetery, or perhaps they knew each other earlier. Either way, my optimistic title for this vision of the future is, "The Fun Never Stops" -->>
 

Comments

[Laura Orem]

Whoever the first guy was, he had a loverly behind, so it's probably appropriate that it's the last thing we earthly beings see as he joins the choir invisible.

As for the second couple -- the man looks just like James Cagney.

[Emma Trelles]

Cool photos - that second sepulcher is so strange and sadly sweet.

[DL]

Cagney to a tee. The trouser cuffs are amazing.