Flesheater 

Robert Sammelin's "Flesheater" presents a stark image: a zombie, teeth bared, feasts upon a woman. The exaggerated, almost grotesque, depiction of the figures taps into a long history of representing death and the macabre. Consider the medieval Dance of Death, or the ancient Greek depictions of maenads consumed by Dionysian frenzy. In both, we see a preoccupation with the body, its decay, and the loss of control. Here, the zombie, a modern invention, embodies similar anxieties. The woman's bizarre smile, juxtaposed with her gruesome wound, recalls the ecstatic poses of saints in religious art. The zombie motif, stripped of its initial cultural context, transcends into a symbol of primal fears, a psychological projection of our anxieties about mortality. It’s a reminder of the cyclical nature of these images, how they resurface, evolve, and continue to disturb and fascinate us.