LUCY CHEUNG

This is the woman (via http://catetom.splinder.com/).

Sansevero’s anatomical machines have gradually become the protagonists of legends according to which the models were the outcome of an operation of human vivisection in which a woman and a man were killed through the injection of embalming substances in their blood vessels. Due to lack of written documentation on the early history of the anatomical machines, controversy about how they were actually made continues.

http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~tcrnmrf/machines.htm

At Hanover Community Centre during Brighton’s Artists Open Houses event.

Wai, originally uploaded by simonparisphotography.

What Do We Have Here?, originally uploaded by simonparisphotography.

‘Phi’ is Thai for ‘ghost’, or ‘spirit’ (pronounced as ‘pee’); ‘Ta’ (technically it sounds like ‘dtah’) means ‘eyes’; and‘Khon’ refers to the famous Thai traditional, masked dance discipline.

http://www.tribaltrappings.com/AO_1A.html

p.s. I made a tumblr to shove all images I feast on (so thats this blog +  what isn’t worth a full blog post).