Sunday, 19 February 2012

Medical Specimens?

 Occupy 2

Even before I began to enclose some of my constructed drawings in bags there were connections between these works and medical specimens preserved in jars. There is for many of us a fascination with the strange, eclectic and wonderful choices that are found for example in The Wellcome Collection, London http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions.aspx and The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/.
The body parts trapped for examination, odd little somethings separated from the whole giving them an entirely other life and other meaning.

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