Skeleton / Self-Portrait 21
- 2012
- bronze, glass, cedar wood, paper
- 30 x 35 x 40 cm
Reconstruction of the body
When it comes to making a reconstruction, science makes use of all kinds of techniques; information about the finding place, the year, climatic conditions, average muscle tissue and things like age and gender. All of this information together eventually produces a scientific reconstruction. In doing so, it is the skull in particular that is often the basis.
A True Copy of My Own Body
Skeleton / Self-Portrait 21 is a reconstruction based on a 3D copy of my own skull (“Vera Icon”), via the CT scan I had made of my own skeleton. A forensic anthropologist anonymously received this 3D copy of my skull, with the only information being that this belonged to a man born in Western Europe in his mid-forties.
A scientific self-portrait
Using available scientific documentation on location, year, climate, tissue structure, skin thickness and muscle groups, the forensic anthropologist finally realized “my” facial reconstruction. The result came in clay in my studio. This I had cast in bronze. Skeleton / Self-Portrait 21 is a self-portrait that, paradoxically, was not created by me as an artist, but with the help of science.
When it comes to making a reconstruction, science makes use of all kinds of techniques; information about the finding place, the year, climatic conditions, average muscle tissue and things like age and gender. All of this information together eventually produces a scientific reconstruction. In doing so, it is the skull in particular that is often the basis.
A True Copy of My Own Body
Skeleton / Self-Portrait 21 is a reconstruction based on a 3D copy of my own skull (“Vera Icon”), via the CT scan I had made of my own skeleton. A forensic anthropologist anonymously received this 3D copy of my skull, with the only information being that this belonged to a man born in Western Europe in his mid-forties.
A scientific self-portrait
Using available scientific documentation on location, year, climate, tissue structure, skin thickness and muscle groups, the forensic anthropologist finally realized “my” facial reconstruction. The result came in clay in my studio. This I had cast in bronze. Skeleton / Self-Portrait 21 is a self-portrait that, paradoxically, was not created by me as an artist, but with the help of science.
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