By way of an introduction to poetics we were required to write a "portrait of the body" prior to our meeting at The Wellcome Collection:
twain
a broken vessel, pained
with the light leaking out
not well contained
endeavor
to fit life into a neat little box
the body box
and the borders strain
better
to let spill
flow free
the outside inside light of me
The workshop on poetics was fairly wasted on me, but the exploration of the collection was interesting; probably would have been more so if left to my own devices. The permanent collection Medicine Man was striking in its variety: from artificial limbs to dental tools to mummified remains to infant identity bracelets.
Once free to follow my own interests I spent a good deal of time in the museum bookshop and found quite a few books I intend to look up:
Formulas for Now - by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Art & Science - by Sian Ede
Science, Not Art: 10 Scientists Diaries - edited by Jon Turney
Strange and Charmed: Science and the Contemporary Visual Arts - by Sian Ede
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything - by Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams (There's also a blog)
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