Article link: FLOTspotting : Medical Heirlooms by Tamsin van EssenThis article is about a project called "Medical Heirlooms" in a portfolio of a woman named Tamsin van Essen. The article says this is how Tamsin describes her own project:
"Exploring contemporary attitudes to disease and obsessions with perfection, Medical Heirlooms is a collection of ceramic apothecary jars that appear to have been affected by various hereditary diseases -- osteoporosis, psoriasis, acne, cancer, syphilis. As heirlooms, the jars can be passed down through the generations of a family in the same way as the medical conditions: a legacy of ill health."
My favourite, however, is the jar titled "Scars (suture)", aka the picture shown. While I think that all the other pieces are art are fascinating and certainly educational, this one is the most simple, and I think the easiest to recognize as a "Medical Heirloom."
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