Gilmore’s Glorious Goods! Turning Imagination into Automation– at least for Taryon Darrington! We have a very shiny Doty being repaired (or rebuilt?) and a casually dressed Tary for the occasion. And still impeccably dressed!
I discovered the original image by accident. I was, of course, looking for something entirely different. The Port of Audierne was taken by Gustave Gain around 1900. It’s in the Brittany area being on the Goyen river, a tributary leading to the Atlantic Ocean.
I tinkered with the autochrome by using a variety of Photoshop and Topaz…
Source image: “Illustration of Agata Lapieruz who lost her nose, upper lip, and bottom half of eyelids after being afflicted by ‘reddish patches covered with tiny blisters that soon dry up and flake off’. Rapidly changing form and location, the sores eventually formed crusts and attacked the soft flesh of the face.”
Bird I & II both are acrylic on canvas, 5 x 7″ 2019 Based on photographs by Hugh Welch Diamond of a patient at the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum. Circa 1840-1850′s.
Some Good My Gentle Master for God’s Sake, acrylic on canvas, 2019
Source: Three skulls showing the effects of leprosy (middle images). Title references the text above a medieval illumination of a leper holding a bell (bottom image).
Lepers weren’t stigmatized in medieval Europe, and in fact were held in high regard. Their suffering on earth guaranteed them a place in heaven without having to spend time in purgatory first. The reason they were pictured with bells was because the disease affected the vocal chords which made speaking difficult. The bell was used for communication, not as a warning.
Work in progress. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas. 16x20”.
Source: “Patient with tuberous leprosy. Extracted from Leprosy In Its Clinical & Pathological Aspects by Hansen & Looft, John Wright and Co, Bristol, 1895, Plate III.” - Wellcome images
“Among chronic diseases, Syphilis is the one of greatest frequency and highest importance. Few physicians are incompetent to treat the disease successfully when its nature is apparent, but there are many who are unfamiliar with its most characteristic forms. The surest diagnosis is that which is based solely unpon observation; and it can be safely asserted that of the numerous and varied symptoms of Syphilis, there are none which point so unerringly to a specific origin as do its cutaneous lesions.” - George Henry Fox, Photographic Illustrations of Cutaneous Syphilis.1881.
