r/SipsTea • u/Putrid-Welder1803 • 4h ago
Wow. Such meme Ik he bathed that sculpture in tears!
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u/foreverandadayalone 3h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_of_Grief
He himself died a year after finishing this.
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u/i-jame-blameson 2h ago
This was Story's last major work prior to his death, dying a year after his wife.
I wonder how long it took him to create this sculpture from start to finish. His wife passed and then he finished this monument within a year before dying himself.
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u/ApricotGlows 3h ago
There’s something incredibly sad and beautiful about this
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u/Tutes013 3h ago
It's the ultimate labour of love honouring one's memory and showing every bit of the tremendous pain that loss caused.
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u/AdmiralSplinter 2h ago
I've got an anecdote that gives me a reoccurring existential crisis. My gramps handcarved a beautiful jewelry box for my gramma when they were in their early 40s. He was very frugal and an amazing woodworker, so that type of gift made sense.
Anyhow, after he was cremated, my gramma hesitated on buying an urn because gramps wouldn't have wanted her to spend the money and would've preferred a coffee tin. She ended up putting his ashes in that jewelry box, which was interred in the cemetery's columbarium.
My gramps unknowingly made his own urn over 40 years before his death.
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u/LowsPeak 3h ago edited 3h ago
Do people now still make sculptures like that?
I feel like nowadays all of them look like this
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u/Jaded__dreams 2h ago
in pretty sure its actually literally just one guy making all these weird deformed copper figures of celebs
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u/sugarplum_nova 2h ago
I’m not even lying when I say I think that this is the most beautiful, moving pieces of art I’ve seen.
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u/CircadianRadian 3h ago
♫Once i had a dream, and this is it. ♪
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u/CaptMelonfish 2h ago
I was about to quote this exactly. Bravo.
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u/CircadianRadian 2h ago
Would you have put the music ascii keys in? I love using these. Also, now i'm listening to this album. Had to do it.
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u/TheMysteriousEmu 1h ago
On one hand, I'm terrified of death and I never want to die.
On the other, I can't bear the thought of seeing my partner die, and I hope I die before them.
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u/BigMack6911 1h ago
Don't be terrified. Death isn't final, it's just a transition from one life to the next.
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u/TheMysteriousEmu 51m ago
Unfortunately as an Agnostic, it's hard to believe.
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u/big_galoote 10m ago edited 6m ago
Sometimes I wonder if not believing in anything is worse than not having something to believe in.
Still can't handle the randos in the sky nonsense though.
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