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  Monday  November 4  2002    11: 32 AM

anatomical imagination

Dream Anatomy

Who we are beneath the skin amazes and scares us, entertains, repels, fascinates, inspires. Since around 1500 A.D., when illustrations of human anatomy first appeared in print, artists have employed fantastic settings, bizarre juxtapositions, antic poses, intense colors, and fanciful metaphors to display scientific knowledge of the body and its interior — a dream anatomy that reveals as much about the outer world as it does the inner self.
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Dream Anatomy Gallery

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thanks to wood s lot