On Tuesday 21st I completed a digital collage of aquarelle drawings I had created when an artist invited other artists to the bowels of the UNSW where surgeons trained on human bodies donated to science. There was a strange humour in the department, no doubt to deal with the obvious horror of dealing with human body parts. It was expressed by a head that had been ‘carried’ around the department for a while referred to as the ‘basket case’ as two holes had been cut in either side of the skull to enable it to be carried like a basket. They began the drawing session by bringing out female body parts (one assumes from the same person) incrementally to draw starting with arms, then legs, then torso and head. I think the torso was the most confronting. My collage reflects the dismemberment and the scientific culture our bodies are subjected to. The work will be exhibited on from the 2nd – 12th July at Tiliqua Tiliqua 257 Enmore Rd, Enmore in a show called Paper, Rock, Scissors.
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