Skin
Item
Title
Skin
Is Part Of
Dermatology
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Biological Sciences
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Fine Art
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Oncology
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Description
I collected leaves from the gardens around Groote Schuur Hospital and gave them to UCT dermatologist Ranks Lehloenya for analysis. Using the strategy of directing insider focus to an outsider object, Lehloenya treated these specimens as sections of skin and read them accordingly, highlighting sections that showed signs of nummular eczema, acne, ageing, miliary tuberculosis and melanoma, to name a few (Liebenberg 2021: 277).
This example exhibits an annular pattern which could be an infection like a ringworm (fungus) and erythema migrans of Lyme’s disease; or inflammatory conditions like nummular eczema, erythema marginatum as seen in rheumatic fever and granuloma annulare.
This example exhibits an annular pattern which could be an infection like a ringworm (fungus) and erythema migrans of Lyme’s disease; or inflammatory conditions like nummular eczema, erythema marginatum as seen in rheumatic fever and granuloma annulare.
Creator
Nina Liebenberg
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Date Created
2018
Source
Chest: a botanical ecology
Resonances
pattern recognition
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Ranks Lehloenya
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dermatology
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apartheid
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Groote Schuur Hospital
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ringworm
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specimen
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insider
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tuberculosis
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melanoma
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infection
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Chest: a botanical ecology
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heart transplant
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medicine chest
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Type
Artwork
Contributor
Nina Liebenberg
