Lisa Nilsson is making bodies. In her latest show, "Connective Tissue," the artist takes the increasingly common image of an MRI-like cross-section of a human body and recreates it with swirls of tightly wound paper under glass. Most of the images come from the Visible Human project, a research database maintained by the National Library of Medicine, along with some 19th century medical texts — so everything you see here is anatomically accurate, and each body once belonged to a living person.
The technique is called quilling, an old method for turning small strips of paper into visually striking coils. Nilsson says the key is how the coiled paper flows into all the available space. "Coils can conform to completely fill a space or...
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