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Gilles Barbier's "Nursing Home"

 
 
Sax
14:19 / 16.07.03
This is utter genius. Life-sized sculpture of superheroes in a nursing home.

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And his name is sort of like Barbelith, too.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
20:38 / 20.01.05
It's so tragic. I mean on the one hand yes, these characters are the product of a capitalist system designed to titilate us with an ageless, dumbed down version of the Neitzcheian Superman, and by showing them weak like this he shows us the weakness of the system that created them...

But on the other hand, we all know these people. It's like people you respect...care about? Get old suddenly. It's made worse because we "know" that these characters are ageless.

And just calling it "nursing home" implies that it could be any home, anywhere.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
10:37 / 21.01.05
Given that Reed Richards has complete control of his molecular structure ( that is his power ! ) he'd never really end up looking like that though, would he ?

Unless his mind went, I suppose.
 
 
Sax
08:49 / 26.01.05
Well, my super-power is complete control over my bowels, but then I am only 35 and in 40 years or so that might not be the case.
 
  
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