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In the number of free men and modern medical practice.
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The writing at top is english directly translated into armharic and it reads: The Ideal
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The large image is that of a stillborn baby with a condition called iniencephalus, where there is a lack of a neck and the back of the head is connected to the shoulders.
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The image bottom left is a portrait of Dr. Harold (Fred) Shipman, the most successful and prolific serial killer of all time who killed hundreds of people. Even his wife had no idea that he was killing his patients sometimes more than one a day. He was caught when he forged one of his victims will's on his typewriter. He committed suicide in prison and he never admitted anything.
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The image at top right is a copy of a woodcut from the incunabulum "Hortus Sanitatis" by Joannes de Cuba from 1491. It depicts a woman applying frogs to her face in an attempt to cure herself from disease.
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The writing at the bottom is latin and it means: In the number of free men. The text reads IN NUMERO LIBERORUM
In this series of Artworks I have played around with the aesthetics of the macabre.My main concern was to illustrate how absurd reality has been in the past.In the future when we take our own reality out of context, things will also seem absurd, even the everyday normal things. I have tried to show how normal the absurd is , when I started this project I was struck by the absurdity of all the images depicted but being subjected to them for a long period of time they have become my norm .So one could say that I have been conditioned and desensitized.
