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Inveniuntur (they are found /encountered /discovered /traced)
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. The image at the top left is a fertilized human embryo after two days.
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.The picture at top middle is of a human foetus at 6 weeks when the foetus already has recognizable features.
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.The large picture depicts a human foetus at 19 weeks in its natural position in the womb.
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.The top left word "INVENIUNTUR" is a latin legal term that means: They are found/ encountered/ discovered/ traced. It refers to how life began as an accident and pure chance.
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.The writing on the left is the 147th law from the code of hammurabi from the 1700's B.C. It is about the treatment of female slaves that were used as servants and concubines and how disposable their lives and bodies are. (The text reads: 147 if she have not borne him children then her mistress may sell her for money)
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.The middle right image is that of a 2 month old boy with Trisomy 9 Mosaic syndrome.
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. The image on the bottom right is a mayan glyph which depicts Chac the rain and lightning god. This picture is also the glyph for the letter B.
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.The writing at the bottom is latin and it means:The freedman is walking hence to that place. The text reads; LIBERTUS HINC EO AMBULAT.
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.
