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Material Witness will focus on extreme textile process. Images will be posted here showing the history of my work, new work, developing projects and inspiration.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Stomach Contents


I was just thinking about stomachs and about what to eat when I ran into this image from Wikipedia via Art Propelled.


Here is one of those odd medical collection shadow boxes I am so fascinated with. This one hit my dyer's bone. It is not an artwork but a collection from the stomach contents of someone with Pica Disorder.


Talk about that feeling of lead in the belly!

2 comments:

india flint said...

thanks for swinging by and leaving your contribution to the farming debate

was a bonus following the trail back here and seeing this remarkable collection

material witness said...

I thought of your beautiful leaves and realized that the medical worker who placed the objects had such a design sense. I spend time placing objects all over cloth and just wait to see what will come. Look at the cloth underneath. Imagine the designs underneath.

And I am so sad for small farmers.