I get no kick from old bones
Nails, skin and hair
No, I really don’t care
Just give me that trickle, that flood
‘Cause I get a kick out of blood.
OK, so maybe that’s not quite how that song goes. I was inspired by bravura bloodwork of this week’s Art of Science pick, Jordan Eagles. Continue reading “The Art of Science: The Bloody Brilliance of Jordan Eagles”
Laura Splan is an artist who is also a certified phlebotomist. Her two fields intersect neatly, if that is the right word, in Blood Scarf, a project from 2002, in which she knitted a scarf from vinyl tubing which then filled up with blood from an IV inserted in a person’s arm. According to Splan, “The implied narrative is a paradoxical one in which the device keeps the user warm with their blood while at the same time draining their blood drop by drop.” (source)
No word on how many cookies that model needed afterward (or if it was in fact the artist herself), but wearing your blood on the outside never did catch on as a fashion statement. Prints of the work will appear in an upcoming exhibit of her work called “Gone Viral: Medical Science and Contemporary Textile Art” in the Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery at SUNY in Fredonia, NY from March 8 to April 7.
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