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IN'SIGHT by Ivan Riches BA, MA
Commissioned by Amersham plc 1999

'IN'SIGHT' (Inner Sight), unifies pictorially the two major activities of the company's business; diagnostic imaging and life sciences. To represent how Amersham's products enable the understanding of 'inner space', 'IN'SIGHT' has been designed as two images in one. The first is drawn on a silk surface, back mounted on a light box measuring 2.4 x 2m. The lighting is faded in and out, giving the effect of looking through the skin into the inner most unseen workings of our bodies.

The back image is divided into two areas showing the two sides of the company working together within an imagined cosmos. Imaging is represented as the human figure made up of separate images of tissues, bones and organs. Amersham Pharmacia Biotech is represented in the details of the cosmos surrounding the human figure, in the palm and on the fingertips of the hand and around the nipple of the woman's breast. Both sexes are depicted (one drawn and the other using a body print of the artist) to describe particular treatments and tests that are gender specific.

Research for this piece of work was conducted at the company's facilities and the Science Museum in London. Other notable influences are from drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Gray's Anatomy and images of space from the Hubble Telescope.

         
   
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