Behind the old-fashioned paper towel dispenser in a hospital bathroom lies a hidden face that is crudely evocative of early 20th century Cubist and Dadaist mask art. Makes you wonder what else might be lurking out of view. Maybe an original copy of the Declaration of Independence. Maybe a wad of gum. You just never know. The Dadaist Marcel Janco’s mask-portrait of Tristan Tzara (1919)The influence of traditional African masks on Picasso’s work is clear in “Les Demoiselles D’Avignon” (1907)Chrome = Progress. I say, “out with the new, in with the auld.” The wall repair’s palimpsest evokes the infamous work by Robert Rauschenberg called “Erased De Kooning Drawing” (1953)Rauschenberg’s big erasurebegs the question, “what’s behind it all?”
Much of my career in radiology has been spent studying, with great fascination, the internal mechanisms of the human body. This blog is an effort to expand that view to the outside world and also to map my own experiences engaging with it.
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