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 Dissection - Skulls - Bones - Skin 
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After having been inspired by the likes of LamourSupreme and Joshuajh and the great work that they've been posting here, I thought that I'd put up some of my own stuff. With the love of skulls and all things creepy around here, it seems appropriate.

The work is all photo based and consists of layers of transparent photographic material separated by either plexi or glass. In this way there is a 3D element as you can actually look into the pieces. In certain cases glass layers are also etched with old medical illustrations.

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Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:18 pm
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I love it man! Especially the skinless face with it's eye open.


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That last one reminds me of the forsensics that were used in identifying the Romanoff family


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Nice work!


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I love it man! Especially the skinless face with it's eye open.

Thanks Count. I recall you mentioning in previous posts that you were into this sort of stuff. Glad you like it. The image you mentioned is actually of my Father. It was developed with a series of anatomical overlays on top of the original image.


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That last one reminds me of the forsensics that were used in identifying the Romanoff family

The torso itself is actually taken from the tomb of the Medici family, while the skull was photographed at a Health Sciences Lab that I got access to. I like using old references and then superimposing medical imagery over top as it does give it a modern medical/scientific feel as well. Your comments about the Romanoff family are really interesting. I'm going to look into that some more.


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Nice work!

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Very haunting imagery!


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From the Medici family! Thats some pretty cool history there!


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From the Medici family! Thats some pretty cool history there!


For sure.

This whole series was based on the history of medical imaging. As such many of the backgrounds came from Renaissance sculptures. These "bodies" were then overlaid with various modern medical material – x-ray film, MRI, Ultrasound etc.


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nice work! those are really eerie and appealing at the same time. i love the last one.

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Fucking awesome!


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I can dig it Plover. High tech art with a renaissance creepiness to it. I like the mix of modern and classical on your pieces. Encore!


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i'm scert.
nice work.


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Thanks a lot for your kind comments. Here are a few more from the same series of work.

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nice pieces...i love the faces. :evil:


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I love that skull in the box!


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LamourSupreme wrote:
I love that skull in the box!


Thanks.

That one took a bit of time. It was as a result of my thinking about how medical imagery had moved in a completely digital direction. The image is of a skull that I photographed and printed on Lith film (Transparent film often used in silkscreening). The image was then cut into hundreds of 1/4" squares and rebuilt on 16 layers of glass. The cube is aprox. 8" X 10" X 5" in size.


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