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Well, I can only hope that my illustrator drawings are a little more precise that my paper cutting skills! But this is roughly how I wanted them all to be standing on top of one another. Ideally they would have had some kind of slotting mechanism, but I wanted them all to face in one direction, and that called for the use of poles for support.

Organs

After several exhausting night shifts on illustrator I will not upload any of my drawings from there. But here are some images from Grey`s anatomy that those David humans will have cut out. The majority of them will be in clear acrylic- the healthy people whose contribution to the system is all but invisible. Interspersed will be a few made out of a more natural material- leather and felt- they will need all the support they can get from the others in order to stand upright.

David returns from America

Sorry, Americans! but this one made me giggle

The perfect human

After looking through a number of images to find a good healthy human average, I thought of Michelangelo as the renaissance father of human anatomy. Although his famous human in a circle drawings would lend themselves more to this topic, I felt that his statue of David with his perfect proportions more suitable for building a pyramid.

Health Hype

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HEALTH IS A BASIC HUMAN NEED AND FREE ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE IS A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT

On the surface this is my medical background speaking, still, on another level this is me speaking, and it is what made me go into medicine in the first place all those years ago.
There couldn`t be more hype about the subject already. Now that the health care reform bill has passed with great fanfare, it has become an issue of acceptance and trust in the government. And still the bill is only the beginning to get everyone covered and there are still a number of loopholes. The general idea though is to get everyone to contribute to help to pay for the ones in need. I like to think of this system as a pyramid, with the large number of healthy people forming the broad base of support, and a smaller number of sick and needy people coming out on the top. In a way the sickest of the lot is king.
When considering an object that would create hype about health care, I thought that this aspect of coming together in order to help those in need would be best demonstrated in a sculptural object to which every person could contribute, rather than every individual wearing a badge of support. If, as part of a campaign to elicit mass support of health care reform, every person gets to donate one part of the pyramidal sculpture together with a financial contribution, it could quickly become a towering structure that could awe the old pharaohs.

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finished one night jewelry

here are some samples, they are not quite perfect yet, like the earring findings are rather boring- but functional, and the necklace in fact broke due to cheesecloth failure..... ideally the findings would be just as decayable as the pieces themselves