Hunterian

Embellish [em·bel·lish] tr.v.  1. To make beautiful, as by ornamentation; decorate.  2. To add fictitious details to exaggerate the truth: "A fanciful account that embellished the true story."

Can you embellish death?

On Wednesday I went on a trip with the course to London, on that trip I visited two places:

The John Sloane Museum

The Royal College of Surgeons- Hunterian Museum.

I really enjoyed both visits but what I saw at the Hunterian Museum truly fascinated me, as I am investigating into the human body as part of my project, I had always hoped it would deliver me with some inspiration. The Hunterian Museum is a collection of anatomical, pathological and zoological specimens collected by the surgeon, John Hunter.  The majority of these specimen are displayed in jars of formaldehyde to preserve their states, and this manner of displaying the items created an eerie effect, especially when it came to subjects such as human limbs, the partial face of a child and fully developed babies.

On my return home and on the next few days I was focussed on creating images of the brain, I continued my idea of layering as I carried out with the head layers,but I then took these images into photoshop to see what could be produced.  

I was thinking about the processes of the brain and what thinking an problem solving it carries out. The ABC.. represents this idea of thought, whilst the pixelated shape represent an outside/alien subject entering or attacking the brain, not only in a subjective sense, it also displays this visually.

I like the pixelation, it highlights an area; it seems like an alert.