Death mask

I did have a thought when the National Treasures Exhibition was on tour and passed by here in Adelaide last year. I remarked at how queer it was to have a 'death mask', how utterly rock n roll it was, how macabre. Perhaps it was from the lack of picture evidence, to capture the cold killers face after it had been embraced by death, as if proving "this is the last you'll ever see of this man".... Check out the death mask of serial murderer Frederick Deeming, yet another killer who's fetish it was to bury bodies under the floor. Could have been from South Australia!

I also starting thinking how as a lasting tribute one might make a death mask with puckered lips, to be attached to a limber pose made of plaster, as a lasting water feature in the front garden of the family home. Awesome.

Check out the National Treasures of Australia.