2005

Lightboxes with Duratrans Light Jet print mounted on acrylic

24.5"H x 24.5"W

Each photograph is a digital collage created with found images of x-rays from the web and medical books.   Bones and intestines form the structure of various domestic objects.   The title of the piece was inspired by the story of Bertha Roentgen (wife of William Conrad Roentgen, the discoverer of X-rays).   Bertha was thought to be a hypochondriac and in the last years of her life her husband gave her multiple daily injections of morphine to deal with her reportedly psychosomatic illnesses.

Exhibition Views:

Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX
Richmond Art Center

Broadcasts:

Spark: Artist in Search of a Medium

Reviews:

"...Splan's X-Ray Visions and Morphine Dreams series have the effect of actualizing the ways we project ourselves onto our objects... Such is the nature of Splan's work though, with its willingness to explore what happens when you combine the familiar or domestic with the less comfortable realities of the human body and medical biology. Turns out that science and decorative domesticity make for rather disturbing bedfellows..." (Goe, Kitchen Sink, 2006)