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The Truth About That Regrown Severed Finger
Earlier today we talked about how the U.S. government is investing a ton of money into regrowing severed fingers with pig powder. This art project by California artist Tim Hawkinson, who is fascinated by the weirdness of human bodies, deals with the bizarreness of reconstructing severed fingers. Check out what Hawkinson has stuffed inside this gargantuan severed finger, below. More » -
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Biological Art Mixes Plant Clones, Human Flesh, and Beautiful Bacteria
It was the first time I ever went to an art show where the art had gotten unruly and climbed outside its frame. A Sunshine-looking installation by Philip Ross of plants growing inside glass tubes of water (above) had turned into a jungle of plants breaking out of their transparent prisons and in some cases actually knocking bits of the sculpture onto the floor. It was the perfect example of how bio-art works: created from living materials, it breeds and grows and behaves just as illogically as life itself. This was just one of the reasons I was fascinated by the recent BioTechnique art show at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. More »
