SomeBody, the muscle layer

 

  Frills, inspired by 18th C. panniered dresses and their elaborate trimmings, made in taffeta and adorned with metallic organza rouleaux form  the muscle, tendon and fascia layers of the book. Three shades of red give it much more depth and make it oh so bloody and real. As it sits on top of the vascular layer at this point the depth becomes a physical reality and begins the visual and surgical journey into the body.

Constructing this in my mind I knew that to make sense of  the visual complexity of surgery I had to make a language in the silk structures that I could carry on throughout the book. Another layer can actually been seen behind the muscle and blood which has not yet entered the narrative but is hidden in plain sight.

  and you still can't yet see the guts held behind on the next page..... but you can feel them through the stab wound.

next: guts