ARTIST STATEMENT: “The human skeleton is a powerful visual symbol. It’s come to represent the “remains”, what’s left after life has ended, after the flesh and mind cease to function. In my photographs, I use the human skeleton as the formal visual element, the subject of the image. In this manner, the skeleton is both …
Monthly Archive: April 2010
Apr 13
Painting Brains like Brödel
My photoshop version. A scan of Brödel’s illustration from a book. For those less familiar with Medical Illustration, Max Brödel was the founder of the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at Johns Hopkins. He is famous for his carbon dust illustrations. As an exercise for our Illustration Techniques class we were to duplicate …
Apr 10
Paleontology, Art, and Paul Sereno
Earlier this week I had the amazing experience of going to the University of Chicago and visiting paleontologist Paul Sereno‘s lab. Pictured above is the “Stone Age Embrace.” [ted id=428] It is wonderful to see someone so dedicated to getting young people excited about science. Check out the Project Exploration blog for information about Project …




