domingo, 17 de novembro de 2013

Tissue sample: the human body in paper and dye

Lisa Nilsson is making bodies. In her latest show, "Connective Tissue" the artist takes the increasingly common image of an MRI-like cross-section of a human body and recreates it with swirls of tightly wound paper under glass. Most of the images come from the Visible Human project, a research database maintained by the National Library of Medicine, along with some 19th century medical texts — so everything you see here is anatomically accurate, and each body once belonged to a living person. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE IMAGES!