geneticist:

A worker at Dalian Hoffen Bio-Technique Company in northern China pieces together plastinated human parts (yes, made from the bodies of the unclaimed deceased)
The completed piece will be put on exhibit for people around the world to see. Read more

geneticist:

Artist Lisa Nilsson constructed various cross sections of the human body using only pieces of rolled paper. Click to zoom in on each picture and be amazed.

I have not updated this with content in awhile with what I have been up to in school. My education in funeral services is drawing to a close, as the quarter ends on Dec. 8th and I am preparing to take the National Board Exam. I have been working 2 internships as well as taking classes at school to tie up loose ends, so I have unfortunately neglected my little online scrapbook project with this blog.  I have so much to write about that I have been experiencing in the past few months and I will be sure to catch up on it all here after I finish up with school and have a bit more free time to devote to personal projects.  I want to try and compile some of my notes here of things I have learned that are important, and some interesting highlights from the Dodge embalming seminar in Las Vegas. I can’t believe my time spent in a classroom is almost over, but with this line of work, the learning never stops. The photo above is from an exhibit at a local museum in Auburn, WA, that I was fortunate enough to attend on the very last day it was open. It was all about the shift from funerals in the home to them mortuary. My internship preceptor took me, which was appropriate because I am actually working at a place that specializes in home funerals and green burials, and I LOVE IT.

While I am on the topic of death, I figured I’d post an interesting link to some art which depicts the bleak picture of what humans are doing to the planet..

bide:

Santa Cruz, CA

While shooting yesterday morning I came across this unfortunate scene.  I don’t know the circumstances behind its cause of death but I was still shocked to come across Chris Jordan’s current project Midway: Message from the Gyre later that same day.

The images in the collection are very striking.  Many of the bird carcasses are almost sculptural despite Jordan’s insistence that “not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way.”  It’s great to see more attention being given to this appalling situation.  More info about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch here.