Walking back from a meeting at the London Centre of Nanotechnology, I decided to pop into the Wellcome Collection current (and captivating) exhibition The Heart. I was taken up by the MRI of a 12 year old heart pumping and the video of an open heart surgery.
I wondered upstairs to the permanent collection. A shelf full of thick books with our human genome made me chuckle, as did Dolly the Sheep pellets and fur. Behind the headless blob of body, I came across Eat22, where the artist recorded everything she ate for a whole year…a whopping 1640 images. I lost my appetite.
Having been ravished by mosquitoes, I took a liking to a map made with (dead) mosquitoes. An interesting work included a sensorial sculpture showing brain activity patterns in response to the senses.
