Consciousness images — Laura Ferguson

Images for Consciousness section [p.61-70]

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All drawings are by Laura unless noted
Media for drawings, unless otherwise noted: oil paints with bronze powders (for floating colors); charcoal and charcoal pencil, pastel and pastel pencil (for overlaid drawing).
All drawings are on paper; the names of the papers are given whenever possible. Archival inkjet prints are on Epson or Hahnemuhle fine art papers.

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Crouching figure (2021 version)

Crouching figure with visible spine

Crouching figure, thoracic spine and ribs

His hands on my rib cage

His hands on my rib cage, with spinal cord and nerves

Red-gold hands/breasts

Double hands (brown pink)

aul Gauguin, Manao Tupapau (The Spirit of the Dead Keeps Watch), 1892

Embracing couple

Nerve landscape (small red square)

Fingers touching

Nerve plexus (light yellow-brown)

Osteophyte bridge at L2-3 [Vs6]

Bone spur, posterior view [L1-4 canal]

Bone scaffolding trabeculae

Trabeculae texture (small study)

L2 from above with spinal cord, charcoal study

L2 from above (yellow)

Spinal nerves emerging at L2 (thready brown) [Vs 7]

Cord in canal (brown crystalline)

Spinal nerves emerging (yellow+red)