Einstein
Artist Noah Scalin of Skull-a-Day created a new series of morbidly intriguing artworks that features his favorite motif.
'Natural Selection' is a series of diptychs of deceased scientists paired with representations of their skulls. Scalin assembled the portraits with random scrap materials like feathers, watch gears and computer parts. The exact same parts were then reassembled to form their ‘skulls’, “destroying that original creation in the spirit of the traditional sand mandalas of Tibetan Buddhism”.
“The scientists represented are all great thinkers whose creations had an impact on our lives today, but also serious repercussions for their own lives (and deaths),” explains Scalin on his website.
Darwin
Curie
Tesla
Franklin
Turing
[via Junk Culture and Noah Scalin]