Brittany Paolella

Brittany Paolella

Reincarnation

2014

Newspaper and masking tape
42" x 36"

This piece is based on the idea that after your time on Earth, if you did something wrong, you are reincarnated as an animal. It was said that after people were reincarnated they were treated very poorly by humans around them and were ultimately decapitated at the end of their lives. The animal heads were made to resemble some of the reincarnated humans. They were constructed entirely out of newspaper and covered with masking tape lending to the fleshiness of the animals. The heads were also intentionally laid on the ground as if they were just cut off and that is where they rolled.