Suspended Animation

Abstract

The purpose of this project is to extend the genre of the vanitas still life within painting by merging with the context of contemporary biological and medical sciences. By doing so I hope to challenge conventional distinctions between life / death and spirituality / sciences, and as a result lessen the taboo of death. If a defining quality of being human is the awareness of our own mortality, then would it not be beneficial to contemplate this idea further and as a result, enhance the idea of being human?