Following my 1-2-1 Final Proposal Review, I planned to visit the Wellcome Library and Museum. There are regular Insights Sessions held.

There is a useful Blog that has an older item from 2018 from the Broadcasting Health and Disease Conference.

A successful visit was made during the Being Human exhibition.

Wellcome Library Reading Rooms

“Glass Microbiology” Luke Jerram, 2014

l-r “Ebola”, “Giardia”, “MRSA”

photographs Michael Turner

These glass sculptures “challenge the virulent artificially-coloured depictions of bacteria and viruses seen in the media and popular culture.” Examples of the media representations with colour can be found in (Salter, 2017)

There is an ongoing tendency to fall into engaging conversations with artists and others. On this occasion, it was a certain Patricia who engaged in conversation around arts, whilst setting out easels for a class as I photographed the above. Subject matter ranged widely across subjects such as contextualisation, the so-called, death of the author, and Portrait Gallery open sketching sessions (my first ever portrait black paper white pencil):

The Being Human Permanent Exhibition – Genetics

Here on display was a CRISPR gene-editing kit. CRISPR allows cost-effective gene editing or even biohacking. Alongside is a portable gene sequencer as a smartphone app and attachment. Since the human genome was sequenced at the turn of the millennium, gene editing and sequencing has become portable and cost-effective. Devices have come out of the specialist laboratory and are entering the public consciousness. Such images lend to the genetic contextualisation of the abstract photo project.

A number of references were identified.

• Trauma (in relation to close relatives, of victims of war, who withdrew emotionally) (Kolk, 2015)
• Art in Science (in relation to the photo project visual contextualisation) (Salter, 2017)

Bibliography

Kolk, B. Van Der (2015) The Body Keeps the Score Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma. Penguin. Great Britain: Penguin Random House UK. Available at: http://www.greenpenguin.co.uk.

Salter, C. (2017) science is beautiful disease and medicine under the microscope. London, [England]: Batsford. Available at: http://www.pavilionbooks.com.

Photographs Michael Turner 2019 unless work is otherwise attributed