From the article:
"Ever wondered what to do with all those cassette tapes gathering dust on the shelf or lying unused in old shoeboxes? Send them Brian Dettmer. Not for the first time, the Atlanta-based artist has broken the mould with a collection of 3D artworks made by breathing new life – of a sort – into discarded cultural detritus. The shells of cassette tapes make up the bones of life-sized human skeletons and animal skulls – so the new creations appear more lifeless than the media from which they are formed."
As you can tell, that is a skull. But it is not made of bone. It is actually made of old cassette tapes. Nothing is more apt than a correlation between death and obsolete technology. I like the idea of breathing new life into old things (recycling) and using things for other than their intended meaning. So I guess this is my lucky day. In the realm of art, nothing is obsolete.
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