Bone Plates
2005
12”H x 12”W
blood, archival pigment inkjet print on Tuscan Rag fine art paper
The photographic inkjet images are of surgical bone plates. Using blood taken from my fingertips, I then drew on top of the prints with a fine pen. The resulting collages combine the fine delicate strands of the blood drawings with the photographic images.
Reviews:
"...Medical technology is what we make of it in Laura Splan's otherworldly drawings of implants that have been rejected and artfully repurposed... offering a rare glimpse into the infinite. This ethereal drawing could be a contemplative mandala or a glorious rosette cathedral window, composed of all-seeing eyes... Splan balances corporeal and incorporeal, wondrous and weird... Splan's show gives several new meanings to the phrase "anatomically correct"; the implants correct our own malfunctioning parts, and she corrects the implants with her own anatomy. But her show... also corrects another anatomical issue: the overwhelming XY factor of the art world, where strong solo shows by women artists such as this one are too often presented only during Women's History Month..." (Bing, SF Gate, March 2005)
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