anniversaries and connections
So it was May 18, and I decided to go to Mt St Helens.
30 fucking years! Wow!
Anywho, I got home, and noticed my friend Jen had posted a link to this list of the victims...and I found myself remembering a picture of a victim's body in the bed of a pickup. I found it with a quick search, and discovered the body was a 9 or 11 year old kid named Andrew Karr.
His dad, an amature photographer, had taken his boys camping up there hoping to get a prize photo.
A few days later, a photographer named George Wedding was riding along in a helicopter that was searching for victims, and he took the picture, and it was part of a prize winning series.
Further thought on the matter, as well as looking for a better quality copy(I know I've seen better copies), made me wonder if there's a connection between how much that picture freaked me out as a kid, and my attraction to the cover of Catastrophe Ballet from Christian Death.
Sure, there's differences, but I can see some similarities as well, especially in the texture.
Compare(NOTE: ONE PICTURE HAS A CORPSE)
Andrew Karr(RIP)
Catastrophe Ballet
Different contexts, for sure, but both are unsettling in a way that makes me wonder if I had connected them both subconsciously before. Also, I'm pretty sure the better copies of the Karr photo have his eyes open, in contrast to Catastrophe Ballet.
30 fucking years! Wow!
Anywho, I got home, and noticed my friend Jen had posted a link to this list of the victims...and I found myself remembering a picture of a victim's body in the bed of a pickup. I found it with a quick search, and discovered the body was a 9 or 11 year old kid named Andrew Karr.
His dad, an amature photographer, had taken his boys camping up there hoping to get a prize photo.
A few days later, a photographer named George Wedding was riding along in a helicopter that was searching for victims, and he took the picture, and it was part of a prize winning series.
Further thought on the matter, as well as looking for a better quality copy(I know I've seen better copies), made me wonder if there's a connection between how much that picture freaked me out as a kid, and my attraction to the cover of Catastrophe Ballet from Christian Death.
Sure, there's differences, but I can see some similarities as well, especially in the texture.
Compare(NOTE: ONE PICTURE HAS A CORPSE)
Andrew Karr(RIP)
Catastrophe Ballet
Different contexts, for sure, but both are unsettling in a way that makes me wonder if I had connected them both subconsciously before. Also, I'm pretty sure the better copies of the Karr photo have his eyes open, in contrast to Catastrophe Ballet.