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Creation Date
Winter 2-2017
Description
Materials: Ballpoint pen, found-frame augmented with plastic
Dimensions: 8.5x11 inch
Project Advisor: Benjamin D. Rinehart
Year of Graduation: 2017
Medium
Drawing
Rights
Copyright for this work is held by the artist.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Keywords
drawing, pen, medicine, anatomy, ink, body, biology
Artist Statement
Exquisite Corpse
Art and science share a paramouric existence in my work. Cold analysis and meticulous reason are transformed into something mysterious and beautiful when reimagined through artistic intent. It is my goal to express the intricacy and grotesque magnificence of the natural world, including human and animal bodies in life and rot, so that they can be seen as both art and biology. This desire, along with interest in lore and legend, and knowledge of the history of humbug, death and medicine fuel my pursuit of visual storytelling.
My particular fascination in Renaissance and Victorian-era flap anatomy paper “dolls” fuels my senior capstone collection. Created in equal measure as scientific teaching models and whimsical puppets, flap anatomies have long captured the public’s eye, and acted as effective teaching objects through play. Unfortunately, many female models are horrendously incorrect, reflecting a long medical history of regarding women’s bodies as lesser or demonized versions of their male counterparts. My responsive art is a conversation between the female body, medicine as a whole, and the scientifically-lay public.