Under
The Skin
36”w x 48”h
Collage: acrylic, paper,
photos, ink, charcoal, pencil
on wood panel
There are more than three million differences between your genome and anyone else’s. On the other hand, we are all 99.9 percent the same, DNA-wise. (And we’ve all heard the news that we are about 99 percent the same as our closest relative, chimpanzees.)
I loved this description from Genome News Network:
If the genome were a book, every person's book would contain the same paragraphs and chapters, arranged in the same order. Each book would tell more or less the same story. But my book might contain a typo on page 303 that yours lacks, and your book might use a British spelling on page 135—"colour"—where mine uses the American spelling—"color."
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I loved this description from Genome News Network:
If the genome were a book, every person's book would contain the same paragraphs and chapters, arranged in the same order. Each book would tell more or less the same story. But my book might contain a typo on page 303 that yours lacks, and your book might use a British spelling on page 135—"colour"—where mine uses the American spelling—"color."
︎ epidermal layers
︎ she and they
Along with all the teeny tiny pieces in this work, I’ve added photos of my family, and my ancestors and a smattering of the rest of humanity.
“She and they
were all the same under the skin, weren’t they?”
~ Michael Faber