Gothenburg
Here are a range of medical furniture pieces on show at the Gothenburg Medical Museum that exhibits chilling simplicity. Usual drill on the stereoscopic viewing. The pair above might be a slight strain to resolve, but probably worth it.
Gothenburg
Skeleton Clock Playing Flutes and Chimes 1790
These automata and the musical clock above are from the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris. Since the renovation they are kept in cases on the main floor. Previously they went on show on, if I remember correctly, the first Tuesday of every month. The curators, all wearing white gloves, would carefully wind up the automata one by one, some with their fur and others just the chassis so you could see how they worked. The highlight was the performance by The Dulcimer Player (below, 1784) by Kintzing and Roentgen for Marie Antoinette. The highlight of the highlight was when the chief curator theatrically lifted her skirts to reveal her exquisite mechanism.
As before, to register the stereoscopic view in 3D go cross-eyed until the images register one over the other. Try to relax and concentrate on the middle of the three images that appear when they are registered. If you are having problems, make the image smaller and try again.
The Dulcimer Player 1784
Automaton
X-Ray 3b mk.2
I have just returned to some drawings I made many years ago. I had a request to put them in an exhibition, which might interfere with a couple of other exhibitions that are coming up, so I have made some copies with slight alterations. It is part of the second body project (see here and here) where I altered X-ray photographs of the body and the related positioning photographs to take those X-rays. The positioning pictures (the originals are taken from Positioning in Radiography by K.C. Clark, 1949 edition) have slight bumps on the body that reveal the synthetic organs through formal transparency. I have not altered these much but have developed the X-ray images by spraying transparent cool grey on the interior of the synthetic organs and added soft highlights, which gives a transparency closer to that in an X-ray.
X-Ray 3a – positioning image for X-ray 3b above
X-Ray 2b mk.2
X-Ray 2a Positioning image for X-Ray 2b (immediately above)
Although I have returned to projects before – there are three generations of body projects (and one that was started about eight years ago but lying dormant) and I am working on the eighth generation of drawing instruments, but I have never redrawn an old project before. I know a couple people whose work I really admire who are constantly revisiting old projects, so I do not feel too queazy about it!
Curtains Photo: Phoebe Chard
As you will see from Colin Campbell’s eagle-eyed comment to the last post, the disguise goes as far as installing curtains. Here is a detail.
Wolseley Infrastructure Photo: Phoebe Chard
Apparently a banal bungalow of a type (ranch) that is common in Winnipeg, this pumping station (?) is disguised to blend in with the local domestic detached houses. The street number and utilities meter encourage the feeling of domesticity and the front door is in a similar overgrown state to the houses that surround it. The neighbourhood, Wolseley, is an outpost for those still trying to live the counter culture as if the world were still as it was in 1970. As you walk round the back the building’s secrets unfold.
Wolseley Infrastructure Photo: Phoebe Chard
Wolseley Infrastructure Photo: Phoebe Chard
Wolseley Infrastructure Photo: Phoebe Chard
Wolseley Infrastructure Photo: Phoebe Chard
Written Instructions
Here are a few more from a range of ‘planes…
Written Instructions
Written Instructions
Written Instructions
Written Instructions
Written Instructions
Nat Chard 