Artist statement. 'The Disaster Series'.

摘要

I have been working as a professional visual artist for a number of years with themes related to the cultural connections between art and medical science. In the past, I have incorporated scientific glassware, medical textbooks, test tubes, and surgical instruments into wall installations, sculpture-based works, chandeliers, and light boxes. While working toward a PhD in art history, my research in Canadian and European medical archives brought me to study various 19th-century anatomical atlases. Over the years I have continued to be intrigued by the way the classical medical figure in these medical illustrations is represented as neither dead nor alive-seemingly hovering between life and death.