"BOZO SKELETON" is a very funny piece by Japanese artist Shohei Takasaki (one of the first urban artists I have become interested in). I especially like the author's comment:
"This 'BOZO SKELETON (aka Stupid Skeleton)' is obviously what a person looks like after death. But BOZO SKELETON handsomely wears a tight suit and a fancy hat, holds a flower, key, gun, pen...and looks in some sense adorable and also cool. It almost seems like he's trying to do what he wanted to do before he died, and he's enjoying himself while he whistles in the dark. You never know when you are going to die in the world today, and you can feel the effort of a human trying to live the life to the fullest through this dead BOZO SKELETON. This is a story of a departed soul trying to bring back the passion of a normal human being, the passion that living human beings hold."
It is a stupid skeleton after all. Because it is irrational. I highlighted some of the words that made me smile. In my opinion, they are the key words that illustrate how an ambiguous image can tell a complex, multi-facetted story. What it is, what it wears and holds is not as important as how it does all that. This comment is a wonderful example of how the work tells more about the artist than the artist about his work ;)
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