Specimen II: Breast
Anatomical digital drawing of breast specimen by Sally Butcher Fine Art

Throughout history, the female internal reproductive body has been depicted as unruly, chaotic even, with parts that bleed, drip, and leak. These intricate digitised drawings represent a scientific approach at neatly labelling and categorising this anatomy, depicting them graphically as archived “specimens”; like microscopic cells from which these body parts are constructed. These images symbolise an attempt to keep these areas controlled and measured; contained and regulated; sanitised even, healing that unruly female...

Anatomical digital drawing of breast specimen by Sally Butcher Fine Art

Throughout history, the female internal reproductive body has been depicted as unruly, chaotic even, with parts that bleed, drip, and leak. These intricate digitised drawings represent a scientific approach at neatly labelling and categorising this anatomy, depicting them graphically as archived “specimens”; like microscopic cells from which these body parts are constructed. These images symbolise an attempt to keep these areas controlled and measured; contained and regulated; sanitised even, healing that unruly female...