I had never seen this before, and the photographer had no background information. So after reading through the comments on Flickr, someone who lived in the area was able to provide a few more details. And another user found the link to the artist's website.

Yes...amazingly beautiful!

wow!

Extraordinary and very moving.

beauty-full.

you still succeed 2 sur-prise alan.. -)
indeed, no ordinary love, no ordinary passion, no ordinary dream, nor ordinary life - should dare look NOT ordinary ...

you know, Sartre - had a theme, (in general & in specific with his non ordinary relations with Simone de Beauvoir), i think he called it "the biographical delusion" saying:

life - as you live it, can be highly alike, the life you would like 2b told ....

wow, talk about a love supreme.

Alan, you found a gem....I wept, this is such a work of love.....

thank you

Right, a work of love. Sad, yet tender, sweet.

That is really beautiful.

A deeply moving display of grief and loss. Thanks for sharing this with us, alanocu.

An extraordinary work of art and lasting expression of love. But personally it would have been just as effective if she'd had a nightgown on.(leave it to a grandmother to think like that).

Hmm.. maybe I'm a cynic, but I could also see this poor guy, who now has a beautiful naked woman, just barely within his reach and she is a stone cold one at that. (Literally) I could easily envision some revenge thing going on from the widow's side if he was a cheating dog or something, but then again, maybe it is just love.

I just asked a buddy and he said and I quote:

"AWWW, that would be torture! Hahaha."

I rest my case. *LOL*

Though it is an incredibly well done sculpture, (no doubt about it) I also find the hair cascading over what would be his face, kind of creepy actually. It almost looks like a smothering. Like being waterboarded with hair almost. *LOL* Haha, how differently different folks can see the same thing. I don't find it romantic at all. I see a subtly devious and wonderfully bitchy way of getting secretly back at a cheater. *LOL*

You go girl!! (and I mean the widow.) Haha!

Look what you made me do alanocu:

http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/F1BD47DF-454E-4BF7-AF45-199F2E86EB7A

I have just spent the last bit of time laughing my arse off after googling "funny epitaphs". Oh my goodness!

An amazing legacy

Personally,I'd rather be cremated and have my ashes spread over Liv Tyler.(But that's just me).
Great find!

When I die, I want your hands on my eyes:

I want the light and the wheat of your beloved hands

to pass their freshness over me once more:

I want to feel the softness that changed my destiny.



I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep.

I want your ears still to hear the wind, I want you

to sniff the sea's aroma that we loved together,

to continue to walk on the sand we walk on.



I want what I love to continue to live,

and you whom I love and sang above everything else

to continue to flourish, full-flowered:


so that you can reach everything my love directs you to,

so that my shadow can travel along in your hair,

so that everything can learn the reason for my song.

[b] Pablo Neruda [/b]

And grammy honey, it's a lot sexier if she doesn't wear the nightie

It is simply phenomenal on every level.

Hullo Thorne! Long time no see! It's so nice to see your name and comments again.