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Ghost Rider
Nestled in with the town of Rhyolite, Nevada is the Goldwell Open Air Musuem. To say the museum is bizarre would be an understatement, but if you've spent a lot of time in the Mojave Desert you find the bizarre is actually quite normal.
This is a shot of "Ghost Rider", created by Charles Albert Szukalski in 1984, along with his "Last Supper" sculpture.
From the website...To make the life-size ghost figures, Szukalski wrapped live models in fabric soaked in wet plaster and posed them as in the painting "The Last Supper" by Leonardo Da Vinci. When the plaster set, the model was slipped out, leaving the rigid shroud that surrounded him. With more refining, Szukalski then coated the figures with fiberglass making them impervious to weather.
It's quite a bizarre read, if you have a few moments I would suggest checking out the museum links.
Rhyolite, Nevada
December 2006
ps. Hmmm...I wonder if there is some sort of hidden meaning that this is my first upload of 2007.
Ghost Rider
Nestled in with the town of Rhyolite, Nevada is the Goldwell Open Air Musuem. To say the museum is bizarre would be an understatement, but if you've spent a lot of time in the Mojave Desert you find the bizarre is actually quite normal.
This is a shot of "Ghost Rider", created by Charles Albert Szukalski in 1984, along with his "Last Supper" sculpture.
From the website...To make the life-size ghost figures, Szukalski wrapped live models in fabric soaked in wet plaster and posed them as in the painting "The Last Supper" by Leonardo Da Vinci. When the plaster set, the model was slipped out, leaving the rigid shroud that surrounded him. With more refining, Szukalski then coated the figures with fiberglass making them impervious to weather.
It's quite a bizarre read, if you have a few moments I would suggest checking out the museum links.
Rhyolite, Nevada
December 2006
ps. Hmmm...I wonder if there is some sort of hidden meaning that this is my first upload of 2007.