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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

For Josh

posted by on November 29 at 15:10 PM

Actually, Josh, don’t look. Everybody else: This woman makes art with medical themes and materials, often using her own blood. I’m particularly drawn to the Blood Scarf, a scarf knitted from clear vinyl tubing that attaches to the wearer via an intravenous device, filling with the user’s blood. It’s beautiful…

bloodscarf1.jpg

… and also creepy.

Also check out “Pillows,” on which the artist has silk-screened close-up shots of human skin:

pillows_side.jpg

There’s an equally squeam-inducing video of mirror-image blood drops approaching each other and receding over and over again, but you’ll have to go to her web site to see it. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.


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1

That scarf is AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL. She should do a matching belt with a catheter and urine!

Posted by Mark Mitchell | November 29, 2006 3:14 PM
2

Yes, and if the blood is fresh, I'm sure it's plenty warm too.

Posted by david | November 29, 2006 3:19 PM
3

I need to puke

Posted by The Peanut Gallery | November 29, 2006 3:35 PM
4

Love the "anti-psychotic PILLows" too.

But, what I REALLY want is a knit cap that looks like an exposed brain.

Posted by COMTE | November 29, 2006 3:36 PM
5

Think that's cool? I do too... look at this too!

http://www.acegallery.net/past/d-f/donovantara/taradonovan.htm

Posted by skipping_lightly | November 29, 2006 3:39 PM
6

Oh, my god, that scarf is so fucking hot! I've seen people do that tube/blood thing as bondage, but to knit a scarf? Awesome! Can I buy one?

Posted by Mistress Matisse | November 29, 2006 4:02 PM
7

Those pillows were inkjet printed, not screen printed

Posted by chris | November 29, 2006 4:06 PM
8

Yep, it's hot all right, right up to the moment where something snags and tears the tubing and whoopsie, a pint of your blood is all over the floor. Then things get cold very, very fast.

Posted by laterite | November 29, 2006 4:37 PM
9

Yuck. What a stupid project.

Posted by yuck yuck yuck | November 29, 2006 4:48 PM
10

how exquisitely gorgeous.

i would really like those rugs of bacteria in my house, though. how handy! one could always see the optimistic side of maybe not having the cleanest house, but at least have just a rug depicting black death and not black death itself!

Posted by z is for xylophone | November 29, 2006 5:04 PM
11

She must have been a goth in high school. Or maybe she still is. A goth. In high school.

Posted by cite | November 29, 2006 5:55 PM
12

At first I was really excited. I thought that she had dyed the scarf with her period blood. (Yes, it would be darker, but it was my first thought). I am a big fan of period blood. But, a tube? Now THAT'S gross.

Posted by Papayas | November 29, 2006 6:12 PM
13

She is sick!

Posted by Mr. Blunt | November 29, 2006 6:18 PM
14

Nice work - I really enjoy the folk art meets science aspect but I also think the commentary about the science of medicine vs. the reality of our bodies and nature is a little lost in the presentation of some of the pieces because there also seems to some commentary on consumerism tied in as well. It is overtly political work, but the agenda isn't as clear as it could be...

Posted by Soupytwist | November 29, 2006 6:30 PM
15

Erica, you called me a transvestite in your article!!! I am NOT a transvestite. How will I show my face in the Bus Stop again? :|

Posted by someone somewhere | November 29, 2006 7:59 PM

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