Friday, October 21, 2011

The Metamorphosis


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Image of the Week #13, October 18, 2011:


From: Friday Fodder, October 14, 2011 by Jennifer Ouellette at Cocktail Party Physics.

Original source: Benedetta Bonichi

Jennifer Ouellette?s Friday Fodder once again has an amazing array of stories you might discuss at a cocktail party (while clustered around a laptop) including the x-ray fine artwork of Benedetta Bonichi. The metamorphosis takes an artistic theme that?s been around longer than human history, anthropomorphising animal-human hybrids, and projects that theme in a visual language both modern and antique, through x-ray imagery. The distressed, discolored x-rays feel like found footage or lost archives, while x-rays themselves are modern enough to give one pause on the animal-human hybrid theme. In The Metamorphosis, the expressive bird-headed figure?s movement is captured at a moment in time, like a technological fossil we know cannot be real but that invites our study, preying on the empathy we feel for both human and our animal cousins.

Bora ZivkovicAbout the Author: Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web. Follow on Twitter @boraz.

The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

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