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CAROLINA SCIENCE IN MY MIND

 
 
Feb 1993.  Excerpt from the book, Year of The Pig.

I showed Damien my spill paintings and gave him my Carolina science catalogue because he needed a butterfly source of materials. So I put yellow stickers on the pages with the skeletons, sculls, mannequins and resuscitation dolls I was working on. He said he would stick to the animals and I would do the humans. 

Excerpt. 1995.  He not only did the animals but the mannequins and paintings I was also working on.  Paintings based on the human pathology slides.

 

 

Picture from the Carolina biological science catalogue

 

Mother and Child Divided. 1993. (Damien did this a couple of months after)

Picture from the Carolina biological science catalogue

This Little Piggy Went To Market. 1996. Damien Hirst
 

This is what inspired my spill paintings in 1989. Damien saw these in my studio and at the Cohen gallery project room in 1993

 

Damien Hirst. spin painting 1996
 

John LeKay. Ying and yang. 1990

 

Damien Hirst. Hymn 2000

Picture from the Carolina biological science catalogue

Cancer of the lungs

 

Damien Hirst
Cancer of fat cells, light_micrograph_SPL.jpg
2007
 

 

Picture from the Carolina biological science catalogue

Cancer of the lungs

 

 

 

 


 

John LeKay 1993. Revolt contre la morte. (cancer painting) Exhibited at the project room of Cohen gallery. New York. 1993

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