artist Noah Scalin The College of Physicians of Philadelphias Mütter Museum. Anna, the curator, asked if I could make a new skull for an upcoming project of theirs. To my delight ,they had just acquired a collection of hundreds of beautiful real brain slices encased in acrylic (which had been dubbed Zombie MREs)! Since theyre very sturdy I was allowed to used them as my material and I was set up in a lovely room that holds the card catalog for their library. Over the course of two days, I arranged the slices on two large old library tables and climbed a ladder over and over making sure the image looked right from a single vantage point (where I would eventually take my picture). All told ,I used 375 slices and a bit of fabric for the eye/nose.holes.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 23:25:23 +0000