Some of the skull tops now available in my Thinks Gifts store just in time for summer.
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Color Blind by Roy Nachum
About the project:
Color Blind is a series of circular canvases based on the Ishihara Color Vision Test, which is used to diagnose color blindness. In each the image is formed by a field of colored circles that function as “pixels”, and in each a Braille message is written as a circle within the circle. To a colorblind viewer these images would be visible but relatively hidden, demonstrating that human perception is variable and considerably subjective.
Some super cool skull prints by Ali Gulec
Katsuyo Aoki’s Predictive Dream is a series of porcelain skulls that combines the opposing ideas of death and entropy with beauty and adornment.
The Hyrtl Simulacrum Installation is a fantastically imaginative museum display designed by Jeanne Kelly
Kelly on her display:
The Hyrtl Simulacrum is a multimedia, interactive augmentation to the museum experience. It makes curiosity contagious and infects others with a sense of wonder. The project uses museum artifacts as the foundation for creative historical fictions. These fictions are discovered through digital forensic facial reconstructions and analog interaction with story machines.
The stories begin with 8 of the 138 human skulls that combine to make up the Hyrtl collection, found in the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, PA. Durning the late 1800′s Dr. Joseph Hyrtl wrote what he knew about each person directly onto their skulls. The Hyrtl Simulacrum grew from these short stories written directly on bone. A famous Viennese prostitute, a tight-rope walker who died of a broken neck, a child murderer and a Tai bandit are only a few of the very real people chosen from the collection to become characters in this new narrative.
Combining my love of artistic anatomy, conceptual visual narrative, history, science and good story telling, the project has grown to include high-resolution CT scans of the original skulls, vintage photography, a variety of forensic reconstruction techniques, digital painting and image editing, large wooden interactive curiosity cabinets with miniature handmade dioramas inside and much more.
Artist Noah Scalin makes skulls out of the darndest things. Click on the images to find out what each skull is made of.
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