IT’S LIKE PINBALL INSIDE YR GUTS
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defrogITEM: Canadian artist Howie Tsui creates an exhibition for the bicentennial of the War of 1812, with a theme on healthcare in battle.
It includes a pinball game called Musketball!, which is meant to illustrate what it’s like to be gut-shot with a musket:
Other parts of the exhibition features illustrations on deer-hide of soldiers injuring themselves to get out of combat, and a sculpture of two conjoined skeletons wearing powedered wigs and dancing on a field of human skulls.
“I want to make it comical, satirical,” he says, of the three parts of his exhibition. “There’s a pinball machine as amusement, (the deer hides) I see as comics, kind of cartoony, and this (skeleton sculpture) being more Barnum and Bailey anatomical spectacle, a freak show.”
Happy Memorial Day, by the way.
PRODUCTION NOTE: For those of noting that the bicentennial of the War of 1812 was last year, I should mention the story I'm getting this from is a year old. But someone just recently passed it on to me.
Mangled viscera,
This is dF
It includes a pinball game called Musketball!, which is meant to illustrate what it’s like to be gut-shot with a musket:
“Since a musket (ball) isn’t aerodynamic, when it enters your body it doesn’t come clean out, like a modern bullet, it just kind of rattles around in your torso.”
Others might imagine that ball rattling around their innards and think “ouch.” What Tsui thought was, “it’s kind of like a pinball machine.” His art project on historic military health-care was born.
Others might imagine that ball rattling around their innards and think “ouch.” What Tsui thought was, “it’s kind of like a pinball machine.” His art project on historic military health-care was born.
Other parts of the exhibition features illustrations on deer-hide of soldiers injuring themselves to get out of combat, and a sculpture of two conjoined skeletons wearing powedered wigs and dancing on a field of human skulls.
“I want to make it comical, satirical,” he says, of the three parts of his exhibition. “There’s a pinball machine as amusement, (the deer hides) I see as comics, kind of cartoony, and this (skeleton sculpture) being more Barnum and Bailey anatomical spectacle, a freak show.”
Happy Memorial Day, by the way.
PRODUCTION NOTE: For those of noting that the bicentennial of the War of 1812 was last year, I should mention the story I'm getting this from is a year old. But someone just recently passed it on to me.
Mangled viscera,
This is dF
