
Welcome to
Morbid Musings
Are you curious about death culture, cemeteries and
the visual arts? If so, then you’re in the right place.
Morbid Musings reflects on the historical, artistic, symbolic, cultural, philosophical, and bureaucratic ways that the living acknowledge individual and collective mortality. It's fun (for those inclined to this subject matter) and informative.
New writing published every month (I try!) and written from a secular South African perspective, with global points of interest.
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MARIE-LOUISE ROUGET
Archivist | Curator | Researcher
Marie-Louise is the founder, writer and editor for Morbid Musings. A compulsive collector of oddities (material and immaterial) and an archivist by training, her interests are broad and chaotic, and far more than she will be able to indulge in one lifetime. She is also a red head, which (witch) should hardly come as a surprise. Morbid Musings draws together more than a decade of reading and writing about the visual arts, culture, death and bureaucracy in various guises. Not to mention a lifetime of skulking around graveyards marvelling at the personalities, stories, and baffling font choices our forebears leave behind. She is South African and currently based in Ireland.






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