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The Omniscient or alternate prosthesis in all environments.
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.The face in the top left is that of a person suffering from Tetanus and a cramp in the left. Tetanus is a medical condition characterized by prolonged and involuntary contraction of muscles. It is also known as lockjaw.
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.The writing: "used to get on like a house on fire" is the words used to describe the (good) relationship between Dr. Harold Shipman and one of his patients. Shipman was a medical doctor and the most prolific serial killer of all time who used his practice to kill hundreds of people. He committed suicide after he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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.The main large image is that of a four year old conjoined twin (Pygopagus).
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.The writing below the portrait is directly written from english in armharic letters and it reads: Post Mortem Procedures
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.The picture on the right is a copy of a woodcut from the incunabulum "Hortus Sanitatis" by Joannes de Cuba from 1491. The picture depicts a man being treated for ascites (large belly) by a doctor.
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.
