Sam Taylor-Wood - A Little Death (2002)

A rabbit decays.

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Film & Animation

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• video
• art
• sam
• taylor
• wood
• little
• death

[bistrica5star]

this shows how unhealthy our fruit is. even maggots wont eat it. its full of chemicals.

[lionheart1069]

@Bistrica5Star

Or perhaps the fact that maggots each flesh over fruit, it's got more protein. Or maybe even the fact that Peach pits contain toxins which most animals and insects can smell? So It's not chemicals and such.

[FourteenInTheMAking]

@Ssmileplz I'm sure there's something to it, but I don't know why the artist chose to let it escape the rabbit's fate, or how she did it. Did she just add the peach to every photograph and then animated the thing? Or was it filmed and the maggots just didn't eat it? If so, for how long was the scene filmed? Because if it was for more than a a couple of days, that peach would have rotten...

[BEOfficial]

@bistrica5star Oh god. That's not why the maggots don't eat them; the fruit is symbolic. Nothing to do with chemicals.

[stardust4ever]

@116Bears No two fruits are identical. Go to the grocery store and browse the produce section. Each piece of fruit will have slight variations. You would have noticed the countless swaps in the video.

[stardust4ever]

The peach is a biblical reference. Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, therefore they must die. Because the fruit is tainted by the spirit of the devil, the flies won't eat it. The rabbit met the same fate as Adam and Eve, and likewise, sick and disgusting as it may be, we will ultimately see the same fate as that rabbit.

[116Bears]

@ChairBriere

Or, more likely, the artist put a fresh peach there before every photograph to show the dynamics between the decaying and fresh.

[Ssmileplz]

I'm watching this and the entire time I was like, why is the peach not rotting

[LauraaAndCharliee]

Is anyone else looking at this for there art coursework..??

[GamagothRULES]

All in all, this was not a good video to watch while you're comfortable in bed and getting ready to fall asleep.

[ChairBriere]

Entomological lesson: most necrophagic insects are quite specific in what they will eat and when. Forensic entomologists can determine how long a body (human or otherwise) has been dead based on the species of animals found on it, what developmental stage they are at, where the body was found (wet vs arid) and what the local weather records, to within a few hours. SO, simply put, they're not eating the peach because that's not their kinda noms.