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Japanese artist Iori Tomita uses specimen preservation techniques to render animals’ flesh transparent after soaking them in a stain.  View high resolution

Japanese artist Iori Tomita uses specimen preservation techniques to render animals’ flesh transparent after soaking them in a stain. 

(image copyright: Von Hagens Dalian Plastination Ltd) Gunther Von Hagens best known for his process of preserving bodies using silicon has just worked his magic on a pair of giant squid. I saw the Body Worlds exhibit a few years ago in Philadelphia.  Initially I was lost in wonder as the exhibit opens up with segments but after about a half hour it started to sink in that I was viewing the flayed corpses of humans.  As someone who read The HellBound Heart in addition to the Hellraiser movies this suddenly became way too real.  It didn’t help that I was drunk. Very drunk. Von Hagens fancies himself an artist (I’m too post-modernist to argue, he has a hat, he must be an artist) so I can only imagine what he plans to do with the squid. The exhibit is extended in Philly until the middle of April.  I’m contemplating a day trip or overnight visit.  This time I’ll go through sober.  Maybe.

(image copyright: Von Hagens Dalian Plastination Ltd)

Gunther Von Hagens best known for his process of preserving bodies using silicon has just worked his magic on a pair of giant squid.

I saw the Body Worlds exhibit a few years ago in Philadelphia.  Initially I was lost in wonder as the exhibit opens up with segments but after about a half hour it started to sink in that I was viewing the flayed corpses of humans.  As someone who read The HellBound Heart in addition to the Hellraiser movies this suddenly became way too real.  It didn’t help that I was drunk. Very drunk.

Von Hagens fancies himself an artist (I’m too post-modernist to argue, he has a hat, he must be an artist) so I can only imagine what he plans to do with the squid.

The exhibit is extended in Philly until the middle of April.  I’m contemplating a day trip or overnight visit.  This time I’ll go through sober.  Maybe.