Oil on Board 6” x 6”
Emily McDougall
here is a piece of my work… go check out my updated website!
Some skeleton art by Benedetta Bonichi.
Some raw flesh art by Victoria Reynolds.
Some anatomical art by Randy Mora.
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Since I’ve been posting so much about those Curiosity Kits in my shop I thought I’d post a few pieces from my own collection of oddities!
Pictured are some human teeth (the white ones came out of my very own face), raccoon paw, possum paw and leg, alpaca cria foot, cave bear molar, sugar glider skull, tiny dried out lizard, crab claw, hornet nest, frog skulls, wolf claw, skink skull, shrew skull, fossilized raccoon jaw bone, cicada shells, amber, fish otoliths, Civil War bullets, first arrowhead I ever found, old key, raccoon baculum, dog baculum, hog tooth, etc.
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- Emily McDougall. www.emilymcdougall.com
So this week I have been in the anatomy department of the University of Edinburgh. Drawing from first-hand sources has been new challenge which has fed my curiosity even further.
When I think about my artwork and how it has moved forward I try to consider what drives me to this subject matter. So here, and honestly, I will say that it is about death. It is also about life, does stating this cancel the other out?
What drives me:
The experience of losing a loved one.
The body as a machine
Thoughts on death
Thoughts on emotion
Thoughts on the meaning of it all
Comparative anatomy
The dissociation we have with the surface and the underlying structures
I want to know the all of me
Taking control of myself.
What has tormented me over the past nine years of my life is nothing but an ill-function of my brain, a decrease of increase of chemicals. It is all in my head. What I see is coming from my head.
it is, perhaps, this very impossibility of gazing within our own bodies which makes the sight of the interior of other bodies so compelling.
—“The Body Emblazoned” by Jonathon Sawday
Anatomycal Illustration - Drinking Red Wine, by artist Fernando Vicente..
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