KURIOLOGY Cornish Outsider Art Brut Sculpture creations are influenced by an eclectic interest in museum Cabinets of curiosities, Roman Greek mythology and their homoerotic male nude sculpture.
Other influences include dark macabre of Gothic, memento-mori, witchcraft artifacts, occult, and even steampunk
Part of Kuriologist's own 'Cabinet of Curiosities' - Kuriology
Yesterday the sun shone, it was a beautiful autumn day & the computer was throwing a major hissy glitch fest of epic proportions. The wizards in the Microsoft towers were obviously casting spells again, I think.
In such circumstance the best thing to do is take Tik-ma-dog for a good long two hour plus walk. Refreshed by a 4 mile+ Cornish countryside bimble, a good proper cup of coffee at a favored watering hole garden centre. Then return home to do battle & continue one sided swearing session with computer. Google Chrome seemed to be the primary villain yesterday.
Tumblr is new to me, or more accurately I tried it once before but could not get on with it,
.... however, Now!
Part of Kuriologist's own 'Cabinet of Curiosities' - Kuriology
Tumblr is seemingly on the surface SO MUCH EASIER to use than Google+.
Google+ seems to be based on witchcraft & ritual computer magic, as be damned if I can work it out & it is certainly not an intuitive social media platform for an old fossil like me to use.
So Tumblr it was, & whilst ferreting & furtling around on the site I learned a new term. 'Vulture Culture'. This follows hot on the heels of another recently term I've learned, 'Oddities' collections. Both seem to be primarily terms in use on the other side of the pond in USA & Canada.
Part of Kuriologist's own 'Cabinet of Curiosities' - Kuriology
Now 'Vulture Culture' is not to be confused with a 'Culture Vulture'...confused?
A Culture Vulture is a person (generally UK middle class) who is an avid follower of the Arts, as inmusic, art, theatre, ballet, etc.:
Where as 'Vulture Culture' is seemingly the practice of collecting, gathering of dead things, bones, skulls, taxidermy, natural history objects, Memento mori, even paleontology (fossils), conchology (shells), etc.
From what I have observed from a straw poll of profiles, seemingly this 'Vulture Culture' practice seems to primarily appeal to several demographics, ie. collecting of curious things has always appealed to the young between 6 - 13yrs of age group, but also inquiring minds, goths, persons of any age but of an eccentric inclination, also almost anyone connected to museums, artists (or creative people in general). Interestingly, appealing equally (by profiles viewed) to those of such inclination in both male & female genders.
Part of Kuriologist's own 'Cabinet of Curiosities' - Kuriology
This 'Vulture Culture' practice links & leads to 'Oddities' collections, which in general tend to house aspects of the aforementioned dead things, but also may stray & bleed into such areas of including anatomical models, anatomy, macabre, medical & scientific objects, gothic, occult, witchcraft, folk art, tribal items, etc. etc.
eccentric, unnatural, grotesque, mysterious, occult, wonderful, etc. are best summed up for
me by one term
'Kuriology'
Because as the actress Maureen Lipman said, when playing a dotting Jewish Grandmother in a 1998 old former British Telecom advert - 'if you get an 'ology', your a scientist'
If you are foreign, don't remember or are too young,
the link to British Telecom - 'Ology' advert is below
Vampire Rat & Where to Buy More Unusual, Weird & Curious Odd Things...Why eBay.co.uk of course!
Kuriology created Steampunk Vampire Laboratory Rat
Here at 'Art of Kuriology' HQ we are slowly releasing into the public various of our creations. We need space to create even more Kuriology 'things'. Above picture is of one of our Steampunk Vampire Laboratory Rats, Kuriology created in our Bio-hazard Art Unit (Small corner on left hand-side of the workbench). Now everyone has heard of vampire 'bats', - but vampire rats?
Rats are known to eat pretty much anything organic, if they put their minds (& teeth) to it. Even some forms of thermal insulation & electrical wire cable coatings are not safe from what many consider as nibble-y nasties. Rats are also not adverse to a little cannibalism, or even a lot as a 2016 newspaper article raises.
This particular Kuriology rat was exhibited at Helston Museum as part of our 'From Behind Closed Doors' exhibition. The exhibition had nothing directly to do with mad scientists creating Frankestien-esque beasties in dodgy GM crop labs, but was in fact about the invisibility of being disabled when housebound.
This Kuriology rat was however a tongue in cheek 'nod' to the previous dumping of toxic waste from Nancekuke, the Ministry of Defenseformer chemical warfare laboratory at what is now RAF Portreath. On the original decommission of the chemical research facility, waste was dumped down abandoned mine shafts in Cornwall.
Here is a little slideshow video of what other Unusual, Weird & Curiously Odd
Kuriology items we have released onto eBay.co.uk this week.
NB:- Auction ends early Sunday afternoon
29th Oct 2017.
..and if your fed up with being 'sniped' in the last few seconds of an auction. Set up your own FREE Snipe account (I did). Pip those eBay auction bargains in the last few seconds.
