Baudelaire's A Carcass: Free Digital Download!

Charles Baudelaire’s poem, A Carcass, is a loving tribute to a dead animal that the controversial poet discovered on a walk. Beneath the vulgar fixation on rotting flesh, the poem presents a hopeful mediation on possibility for new beauty to emerge from death and ruin.

The poem has special meaning for me; I was recently captivated by the unlikely beauty of a raccoon carcass I encountered. I scavenged the desiccated head and, since then, it has found new life as the centrepiece for a series of baroque still life arrangements.

This magazine represents the marriage of Baudelaire’s infamous poem — presented here in a bold new English-language adaptation — with my own visual interpretation of Baudelaire’s themes. (You can read all about my creative process in my last blog post.)

I’ve decided to make a free digital version of the magazine available subscribers! This is my way of thanking everyone who has supported me so far and I intend to offer this gift as an ethical bride to entice more vultures to join me on my weird dark art journey.