14 Valentines Day Three: Health
Day Three: Health
Another 800x600, this time themed around 'Health'.
Disclaimer: All textures and most of the images used are from open licence stockphoto sites and the texts [if any] are from various quote sites and all authors are credited. Brushes, fonts, and masks are from various Photoshop aid sites or defaults on CS2. [Only for this one: some images were taken from an anatomy website- Human Anatomy Online which is a very cool site, nice textbook type diagrams of all the human organ systems.]
(OMG, save me from the bad puns that my boyfriend infested my brain with.)
Artist Notes: In this peice I wanted to not glorify the human woman's body, but not to ignore it. Keeping that in mind I recalled that while men and women are very different in many respects, the more you peel a human body back the more alike we all are. Get rid of the skin and you see that we're all human. And likewise the further down you go the more alike we are, until you get to the DNA and then we are at once the same and unique. So I tried to illustrate that and I'm not sure it came across.
Another reason I went with the anatomy look is because until resently DNA was only something you heard in research from afar. It seemed to have no application and still it's treated like a buzzword (it makes the patient/client think you're using brand new research, but in reality, the core of practical medicine isn't evolving that quickly.) And because of that doctors did treat men and women with the same drugs, the same surgeries, and only did studies with male subjects unless it was directed at something that only effected women. Because all they saw was that after you ignored the reproductive system, we all were set up the same, not understanding just how interconnected our bodies are.
So it's a double sided sword.
Another 800x600, this time themed around 'Health'.
Disclaimer: All textures and most of the images used are from open licence stockphoto sites and the texts [if any] are from various quote sites and all authors are credited. Brushes, fonts, and masks are from various Photoshop aid sites or defaults on CS2. [Only for this one: some images were taken from an anatomy website- Human Anatomy Online which is a very cool site, nice textbook type diagrams of all the human organ systems.]
(OMG, save me from the bad puns that my boyfriend infested my brain with.)
Artist Notes: In this peice I wanted to not glorify the human woman's body, but not to ignore it. Keeping that in mind I recalled that while men and women are very different in many respects, the more you peel a human body back the more alike we all are. Get rid of the skin and you see that we're all human. And likewise the further down you go the more alike we are, until you get to the DNA and then we are at once the same and unique. So I tried to illustrate that and I'm not sure it came across.
Another reason I went with the anatomy look is because until resently DNA was only something you heard in research from afar. It seemed to have no application and still it's treated like a buzzword (it makes the patient/client think you're using brand new research, but in reality, the core of practical medicine isn't evolving that quickly.) And because of that doctors did treat men and women with the same drugs, the same surgeries, and only did studies with male subjects unless it was directed at something that only effected women. Because all they saw was that after you ignored the reproductive system, we all were set up the same, not understanding just how interconnected our bodies are.
So it's a double sided sword.