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Tony ChirinosHarrington Retractor with Grip Handle
$450
£343
€395.61
CA$639.13
A$686.82
CHF 368.52
MX$8,090.29
NOK 4,633.70
SEK 4,232.85
DKK 2,956.65
About the Item
"The Beauty of the Uncommon Tools" is from Tony Chirinos' project entitled, "The Precipice", - also released as a book project by Gnomic Book in 2021 - which serves as a photographic exploration of death. The work is comprised of two decades of images made in hospital facilities, an excerpt from Chirinos' project statement for "The Precipice" is below:
"'The Precipice' is an ongoing and deeply personal project. The purpose of my work is to create a visual narrative that examines rather than shies away from how precious life is and that, despite how cold and finite death may seem, it is a vital and integral conclusion of a story that can’t ever be fully told without including it. So much of death’s story remains untold -- unseen, unwitnessed or not yet experienced. These projects created a vehicle to examine my deep desire is to explore some of our ideas about death’s enigmas. This photographic journey could have diverged in one way – the transition back into live, the rehabilitation, the healing, yet, this tale follows a clinical, sterile path of the body’s care after death. And this diversion guided my photographic path to examine the hospital’s morgue and, thus, a closer look at my relationship and a broader examination of the cultural and personal associations with death. In my work, death is the quiet context and the constant, the slow and steady pulse that is as much a part of living as that first heartbeat of new creation."
- Creator:Tony Chirinos (American)
- Dimensions:Height: 9 in (22.86 cm)Width: 11.5 in (29.21 cm)
- More Editions Sizes:9 x 11.5", Edition of 9Price: $450
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- Gallery Location:Sante Fe, NM
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU13429885102
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