Susan Jones “Osteologia” |
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 "Disembled skulls triptych", Susan Jones |
 "Pelvis triptych", Susan Jones |
 "Cranial nerves triptych", Susan Jones |
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| "Four skulls, three continents, two sexes facing you", Susan Jones |
| Osteologia: Death vanished from visual art when it vanished from the homes of the family. It is time to bring it back. I have seen very few dead things. I have increasingly realised that, for me, not having experience of seeing dead things made my own mortality difficult to confront. What would it mean to die? How would I look and feel? I started to realise that if I looked at more dead things, if I handled them, and got to know what that felt like, mortality might be one tiny bit less scary. I wanted to show skeletons aren’t always to be hidden or kept behind glass in museums. I find it interesting how differently people think of a skeleton when it might be a treasure, or a prized personal possession, or an object that is handled and touched. Susan Jones |
