SomeBody, the gut layer

  The diaphragm pops up and the guts move in silk bags. Peachy pink, shell pink, golden yellow; all colours found in the gut, a riot of sunset and beachwear......it is the surprise that greets you behind the onslaught of reds. 

 
The bags are an allusion to the solution to the endless wriggling of the intestines during surgery, they go in a bag to make room for the surgeon to work.

The diaphragm is a much more elusive organ to represent but I had solved this in the Textile Body by using the historical corsetry technique of reed boning. Swirling lines of narrow channels drawn from my Gray's Anatomy gave the interlocking 'leaves' of the diaphragm enough bounce to have hiccups.

Eight meters of silk gut, in two colours, gave an upper and lower intestine. The colours of the bags suggested the omentum and bowel and a very pretty buttonhole in seashell shades with french knots makes a life changing stab wound.

 

next: the heart