The Mermaids of Juan Cabana

July 31st, 2006 | Posted in Design, Life, Stories by lordtime | del.icio.us! | digg! | reddit!

Mermaids exist in the twilight place between land and sea, in the psychological intertidal zone between life-giver and life-taker. Wanton, seductive and alluring, these amphibious goddesses of classical myth toy unabashedly with a man’s affections, offering him sweetness yet bringing only death. The paintings of the pre-Raphaelites portray mermaids as lovely maidens with a silvery aquatic tail, who comb their luxurious tresses in serene repose along a placid shore, but the mermaids of old were neither so innocent nor demure. With the sultry curve of their breasts and the dulcet darkness of their dreamy eyes, those half-forgotten ocean deities promised to reveal the secrets of the unattainable fathoms, only to drown men with their savage affection. …
by Kim Bannerman

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3 Responses to “The Mermaids of Juan Cabana”

regado Says:
October 30th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
scary, the secon one looks like shes winking.

i like the ones at http://www.save-the-mermaids.com better.

http://web.mac.com/regados/iWeb/Site/MWM%20Home.html
sam Says:
January 8th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
went to save-the-mermaids.com nothing there.

real dead mermaids are supposed to be scary

Juan Cabana creates the best mermaids around.
jimmy cabba Says:
May 4th, 2007 at 10:40 am
wut tha hell is this is it for real?!?!
emily darner Says:
May 10th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
I don’t think it’s real, then again….
patrick m. Says:
May 10th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
the first one does not look like a mergirl,
looks more like my sister
smabarjonkaniye Says:
May 13th, 2007 at 1:54 am
wtf??????
dont smoke crack kids!!!
dm freak Says:
May 21st, 2007 at 1:42 pm
is that thing real?!?it freaks me out,really scary…
jae Says:
June 11th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
holy shite that lokks so real
pancho villa Says:
July 20th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
the second thing is just a doll made for a bunch of students in mexico, they were in the news and explain why they did it, but many people in the town who found it were really scary
Rofl Gayz Says:
July 21st, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Of course its not real,if it was there would be decay,and the eyes would be filled with salt and dirt and would have been eaten away by seafish.
krissie Says:
August 1st, 2007 at 3:22 am
hey….is that thing real??…i guess it isn’t….the second image is obviously not real…but for the first image??….i don’t think so…but….it’s nice…hehehe…..me here from philippines…
kiki Says:
August 10th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
wow! realy scary man. looks so fu#*ing realistic that i first thought it actually is!!!! astonishing. have to at that i prefer the first pic, more horror movie like^o^
mona Says:
August 17th, 2007 at 7:19 am
its really disgusting
assholr Says:
August 24th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Bitch that thing cant be real …
its obiously mad from plaster
maricelapedroza Says:
October 30th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
where were these photo s taken att
Julia Brock Says:
November 15th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
weird
elena Says:
January 11th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
thats so fake if you look at it clearly first
those fins were removed from a large fish
face looks like a dried head monky and the rest human its fake !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
luan Says:
February 15th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
juan cabana esas suas inventasoes *-*
Tashyy Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
the first brown looking one is pretty cute,were are its eyes?.
Tashyy Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
but some1 should get it a steal sos pad for its teeth.
candylove Says:
March 11th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
kinda late you guys are really funny
Drgnwlf_71 Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 9:11 am
The stuff that nightmares are made of. Both are obviously fake, and made of either paper mache’ or plaster. The question I have is how in the gods green earth did they make them.
Aimee Says:
April 9th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Well The first one does not look like a mermiad…it look more like a deep sea fish that you never see because we cant get deep enough to find all the creatures down there, and well the second picture looks like it is made out of styrofoam…and its gums are much too pink for it to be dead…also its eyes look fake..but im not sure about those…really I dont think that is real at all…and I now styrofoam floats but people have ways of filling styrofoam.

Anyways Thats what I think of those pictures…
Aimee AGAIN Says:
April 9th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Sorry that was so late..haha
Alissa Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
I just want to know if these so called mermaids are actually real. I have always heard tales and fictional stories about them, and i have always been fascinated by them. That is why I want googled this subject.
Thank You for your response, (if i get one) and I hope to get the truth.
michelle Says:
April 21st, 2008 at 6:43 pm
that is so real. fairies mermaids and all those other mythical creatures are also real. they dont live in our own universe they live in a parellel universe. so us humans dont capture them and steal them. they dont want to be science experiments.
amber Says:
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:56 am
i love this sooo much.
i want to marry you.
michelle Says:
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:41 pm
amber do you think that is so real?
Alissa Says:
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:54 pm
thanx michelle for telling me these pics are real and that mermaids r real 2
Archana Says:
July 8th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
these are just awesome…
i wold like to believe that these are real
jamie sollaivan Says:
August 27th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
weow!!!!there silly hot figure mama!!!!!!!!! i think i smell something fishy b’coz of the ugly pictures i ‘ave seen!!!!!!!!oh,, well b4 i 4got cain ya’ please add me in my friendster thiz is my email add “r_cutebaby@gmail.com”tnx again!!!!!!seyah!!!!!
cobra Says:
April 24th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
beautifull!!!!!very crazy, but wonderfull!!!