January 08, 2015 9:59 AM ET Nsikan Akpan read article online here Using a simple wooden handloom, weavers create silk strips that diabetics can use as glucose sensors. This loom is at Achira Labs in Bangalore, India. Courtesy of Tripurari Choudhary itoggle caption Courtesy of Tripurari Choudhary Using a simple wooden handloom, weavers create silk [...]
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Blood on Silk: Tufts Analytical Lab, 2014, silk paper and found objects, size variable. As installed for two and a half days in the analytical lab in the Biomedical Silk Lab at Tufts University Boston USA in late October 2014
This was not a public exhibition - it could only be seen by those who worked in this particular set of scientific laboratories within the silk laboratory at Tufts University Boston where they '.. study the use of silk as an optical material for applications in biomedical engineering, photonics and nanophotonics' This installation intervened into [...]
New thinking in hospital design influencing patient outcomes
In Redesigned Room, Hospital Patients May Feel Better Already By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN The new rooms at the University Medical Center of Princeton also include a bedside-to-bathroom handrail and a foldout sofa for visitors. Credit Laura Pedrick for The New York Times
As per Instructions: 1,2,3 and 4, 2013 and 2014 canvas, paint and nails
Another photo from Blood on Silk at Campbelltown Arts Centre.
The single work Blood on Silk: Campbelltown uses layers of handmade silk paper both to define the structure of the gallery space and to partially conceal it. Working as a semi permeable membrane some things are allowed to pass and others held. The silk paper is beautiful, isolating and with its references to connective tissues [...]
Blood on Silk: Site of Production
Blood on Silk: Site of production, 2014 Video 2.20 mins. As installed at Campbelltown Arts Centre projected onto a black wall A repetitive unveiling of the crook, more formally known as the cubital crease, of the human arm reveals the site of blood retrieval as well as the vulnerability and grittiness of misuse in that area of the body. [...]
Video interview on Blood on SIlk: State Silk Museum from Cultureonline
. Fiona Davies - "Blood on Silk"
You are invited to Blood on Silk | Fiona Davies | Saturday 7 June, 2pm at Campbelltown Arts Centre
Blood on Silk is a dynamic and thought provoking exhibition by Australian artist Fiona Davies. Drawing on research conducted by scientists who planned to create silk microchips used to measure blood cells still within the body, Davies responds with her own personal quest to understand the material, cultural, and personal processes related to surveillance, science, [...]
Exhibition Invite May 7th 6-8 pm State Silk Museum,Tbilisi, Georgia.
Real Blood?
I often get asked if I use 'real' blood in my work. The project I have been working on for three-plus years is titled Blood on Silk, which looks at the biomedical uses of silk, and particularly its ability to assist in reading the properties of blood while that blood is still within the body. So it's easy to see what drives [...]
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