[PLUG-TALK] Art Institute of Chicago exhibit

Dan Young danielmyoung at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 15:03:54 UTC 2005


On 6/27/05, Jeme A Brelin <jeme at brelin.net> wrote:
> Oh, and my roommate is in Chicago this week and she was really happy to
> see some exhibit in which a person "plastifies" corpses.  Have you heard
> of this?  Apparently some kind of transparent plastic is injected into the
> body and certain systems are removed while others are left in place.  In
> effect, you get various "Visible Men".  I guess there's one holding his
> own skin in his hands like a discarded suit (to show how big the skin is,
> I suppose).

http://www.msichicago.org/bodyworlds/

I know some folks who saw this a few months back and said it was
utterly fascinating. Highly recommended.

-- 
Dan Young



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