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Blood of Tree, Blood of Me

It's not everyday that you meet a young woman who keeps her own blood in the fridge. Photographer <a href="http://www.taracroninphotography.com/">Tara Cronin</a> presented her work to me at the student portfolio review at the <a href="http://www.icp.org/">International Center for Photography</a>. Cronin's beautiful "T for Transition" series is a kind of self-portrait and zany science experiment rolled into one. <br /><br />Cronin writes: "The blood, is my own, clinically drawn.  I keep a small vial in my fridge. The images are a result of a scan of the blood between two clear negatives, just scotch-taped together so nothing leaks out. I got the chlorophyll from a lab-- it is pure chlorophylin powder, that when I add water to it, becomes liquid chlorophyll. The blue-ish image is a crushed pill-- one of the medications I'm taking. I'm also experimenting with ways to scan galinstan, a liquid metal-- liquid because its melting point is around 60 degrees F-- this I see as the blood of the earth.  While chlorophyll is the blood of trees and flora; my own blood and on microscopic levels, medicine, the 'blood' coursing through my blood.  Blood of blood. Providing information and transformation while it runs through my veins and body." <br /><br /><br /> <strong>Blood, from the series "T for Transition", May 2010.</strong><br /><br /><div style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 8px;"> <p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; margin: 0px;"><strong>Chlorophyll, from the series "T for Transition", May 2010</strong><em><strong>.</strong><br /><br /> </em></p> </div><div style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 8px;"> <p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; margin: 0px;"><strong>Blood, from the series "T for Transition", May 2010.</strong><em><br /><br /> </em></p> </div><div style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 8px;"> <p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; margin: 0px;"><strong>Klonopin, from the series "T for Transition", May 2010</strong><em><strong>.</strong><br /><br /> </em></p> </div><div style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 8px;"> <p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; margin: 0px;"><strong>Chlorophyll, from the series "T for Transition", May 2010.</strong><br /><em><br /> </em></p> </div>
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September 3rd, 2010 by Rebecca Horne in Ideas, medicine | 6 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

6 Responses to “Blood of Tree, Blood of Me”

  1. 1.   Tweets that mention Blood of Tree, Blood of Me | Visual Science | Discover Magazine -- Topsy.com Says:
    September 3rd, 2010 at 5:43 pm

    [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Ron Simon, World Amazing Things. World Amazing Things said: Blood of Tree, Blood of Me | Visual Science: http://bit.ly/aF82me [...]

  2. 2.   What Is This? | Gizmodo Australia Says:
    September 5th, 2010 at 7:22 pm

    [...] her fridge and apparently photographs it for art shows from time to time, because, well, why not? [Discover] [...]

  3. 3.   What Is This? [Photography] Says:
    September 6th, 2010 at 1:35 am

    [...] Yup, blood. Her blood. She keeps a small vial in her fridge and apparently photographs it for art shows from time to time, because, well, why not? [Discover] [...]

  4. 4.   Fotografia – “Sangue Verde” por Tara Cronin :) « PattinDica Says:
    September 7th, 2010 at 12:53 am

    [...] O sangue dela. Ela mantém uma pequena amostra do seu sangue na geladeira e aparentemente a fotografa para exibições artísticas de tempos em tempos… Discover [...]

  5. 5.   Chris Winter Says:
    September 9th, 2010 at 8:33 pm

    Galinstan… as I guessed, it’s a eutectic of gallium, indium and tin.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galinstan

    Very useful, those eutectics.

  6. 6.   Rita Says:
    October 14th, 2010 at 7:27 pm

    Nice…..

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