Bone Plates

Bone Plates is a series of inkjet prints on watercolor paper combined with drawings.  The photographic inkjet images are of various surgical bone plates used to assist in healing skeletal fractures.  The drawings are rendered on top of the prints with a fine pen using a small amount of blood collected from the artist’s fingertip.  The delicate nerve-like forms are entwined among the surgical bone plates, a synthesis of the organic and inorganic.  The fibrous strands drawn in blood form a tendon-like structure of the radial and grid patterns.  The bone plates themselves become camouflaged by these patterns.