Date: Friday March 31, Saturday April 1 & Sunday April 2
Time: 12 pm - 5 pm
FREE - Must RSVP
Address: Morbid Anatomy Library at Industry City, Brooklyn, NY, 254 36th Street (between 3rd and 4th Ave), Building 2, Room B421 (map here).

* Please note: for admission, please wait by the sign outside Ends Meat Butcher Shop, where a docent will collect visitors every half hour on the half hour.

Dear Death is a letter written from contemporary folk artist Jana Seven to Death. By writing this letter in the form of art, the artist is attempting to reconcile herself with Death’s inevitability. The collection includes pieces of art that recollect children’s toys; a Jack in the Box, a doll house, hand puppets, but when we look closer we notice that Death is lurking in every corner. The dollhouse is actually a Victorian medical classroom with students dissecting a corpse, the Jack in the Box delivers a sad reminder of our end, the wooden horse and cart carries the body of a dead woman.

This collection will be on view at the Morbid Anatomy Library March 31 - April 2 from 12 - 5 pm. The pieces will be available for sale first on site, then via our website the following Monday, April 3.

Jana Seven is a self-taught artist living in New England. Her work pulls from nature, dreams, and folk tales. An obsessive fascination with the past, and the beauty and importance of decay pervades her thoughts and haunts her work. Jana’s art can be found in private collections throughout the world.