October is the spookiest month. In its honor I'm posting all the representations of skulls at hand in my house. Is this exercise in repetition useful or enlightening in any way? Well, for one thing it demonstrates the wide variation in depictions of skulls available to consumers (like me). How might this representational variation compare with morphological variation in actual human skulls? How much "skullness" is required for us to read an object as a skull, specifically a human skull? What are the different conventions at work that modify a skull from being a "punk" image to being mass-produced Halloween decor to being expensive glass home decor/art?
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