2005

24”H x 36”W and 36”H x 24”W each

blood, archival pigment inkjet print on Tuscan Rag fine art paper

The photographic inkjet images are of various surgical implants and instruments. 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 of the implants and instruments.

Exhibition Views:

Femina Potens Gallery
Texas Woman's University

Reviews:

VC Reporter: Art & Culture, September 22, 2005

"...Splan's otherworldly drawings of implants that have been rejected and artfully repurposed... piles of discarded breast implants seem to have taken the place of decorative pebbles in an aquarium, sprouting reedlike filaments that sway as elegantly as algae in a crosscurrent. In this image, the true decorative potential of breast implants is fully realized, and for once they don't look the least bit grotesque... 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, 2005)

From Top Left:

Hearts, Breasts, Hips
Surgical Screws, Bone Plates, Bonemill