Francois Robert was at an auction in the mid 1990s and took home three lockers. Two of the lockers were empty, but the third one contained a real human skeleton which must have served as a teaching aid in a science class. Robert realized that his skeleton was limited: it was wired together for display. He traded his skeleton for a disarticulated human skeleton online - a box containing 206 separate bones.
Since then, Robert has spent hundreds of hours working with those bones, arranging them painstakingly into striking, iconic shapes, each five or six feet wide, and photographing them. He calls the resulting images “Stop the Violence.” Each shot takes a full day to set up.
The results are beautiful and haunting. Robert confesses that more than anything else he is motivated by the fear of death. “The bones are something left behind, a form of memory,” he says. “I try to treat that person on my studio floor with respect.”
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[...] Audrey chanced upon this series of art created from human bones by photographer Francois Robert. Using real human bones, Francois arranges them painstakingly to create iconic shapes which have become symbols of war and violence. The series is titled “Stop the Violence“. The bones have an interesting story behind them, too. Apparently, Francois won three lockers at an auction in the mid 1990s – two of which were empty and the last remaining one contained real human bones that were used as teaching aids in a science class. Since the skeleton was wired together and the bones could not be disconnected, he did what any artist would do: exchange his skeleton for a disarticulated one. He has since spent hundreds of hours creating these skeletal arrangements and photographing them. “The bones are something left behind, a form of memory,” he says. “I try to treat that person on my studio floor with respect.” (via That’s Like Whoa) [...]