The Inner Beauty of a McNugget: A Cultural Scan
The Inner Beauty of a McNugget: A Cultural Scan

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Doctors and researchers regularly rely on CT scanners to create images of body parts like brains, chests and knees. But an artist-turned-medical-student in Manhattan is using one such machine to peer into the meat and guts of cultural icons like the Big Mac, the Barbie and the iPhone, creating whimsical and occasionally creepy images.
Satre Stuelke, 44, said his aim was to penetrate the metal, plastic or organic interiors of pop objects and foods, asking people to “think about how things are constructed.”
Unlike a physician, he is not looking mainly for pathologies. Yet on some level, his work allows viewers to diagnose cultural objects, finding ominous or surprising details within them. This is inevitable, he said, given the association between CT scanners and medicine ... (link NYTimes)
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