The Thought Experiment

Prep for Pecha Kucha

My studio has been transformed into warped mortuary set. I have prepared the paintings that i will perform the autopsy on and have set up props to create an authentic atmosphere.

Life and Death

This Wednesday afternoon, 27/10/21, i had my appointment at the med school autopsy department. Dr Sam Webster and Dr Chris Summers showed me around.

First the models, that are truly amazing and totally fascinating.

Then the autopsy room which is quite a challenging environment to work in, the smell is significant and made me feel a bit ill. I was shown a cadaver that had been opened up and dissected and also some extracted organs.

The extracted human organs are quite brown or grey and drab, they are filled with ethanol to preserve them (what would ethanol do to photographic film or paper?). I was treated to a very interesting briefing, as Chris revealed his interest in Renaissance art particularly identifying human anatomy in art and architecture. I was then left on my own...

I took a few pinhole photos (to be developed), some watercolour sketches and 9 Polaroids. After working 2 hours in the autopsy room i did have a bit of a headache, so moved into the model room, which was much more pleasant.

I think it is quite obvious which studies are from life and which are models, the colour gives it away. I have learnt much about anatomy which is informing this project accurately and it might be something for me to pursue further.

I did more experimentation using my portable document scanner. This is a foot long wand that can scan either pdf or jpeg up to 900 dpi.

The results are always unpredictable from this device, but there is usually something produced that can be used, developed or provoke further investigation.

I try to scan both 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional objects.

I am very happy with these scans i am starting to understand how to create anamorphic effects with the device.

I have an idea for an installation; the dead human heart is like a sad piece of deflated rubber, could i make a few hundred of these lifeless drab brown hearts from rubber or silicone and attach them to a floor space? The participants would be invited to remove shoes and socks to walk over them. The experience would certainly be sensory, but would it also be too literal?

Print Perfect

I have spent 4 Wednesdays now in the print shop with some help from Peter Spriggs and Lee a second year MA illustration student. I have made great progress with a series of combinations that are taken from my painting and photographs.

I knocked up 5 screens; one blank for a background colour, one with taken from my painting and then three that are the separated values of the human pineal gland and system, that i lifted from the Online Anatomy Atlas. I subsequently realised that the pineal gland is also recognised as the 'Eye of Huros', which links back to Egyptian medicine and hieroglyphics.

Although i am attempting to use similar colours to Soutine's carcass series, beginning with a blue background, i have actually started with the lighter colours and will get darker, sort of reversing the values, although i inadvertently ended up using the colours of the four humors.

"It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen"

('A Clockwork Orange', 1962 / 1971, Burgess / Kubrick)

My thought experiment was to visualise a pile of human organs and among other things brought me to consider anatomy. The four humors and temperaments - human nature itself now under my interrogations: If mankind could have chosen another path years ago, so how far do we need to go back to look at another way?

Could another path have improved or worsened the current state of the world. Is human nature emergent? Does it have a high or low entropy? What difference could this make?

https://www.pnas.org/content/99/suppl_3/7187.full

Given that AI uses evolution as a basis for design, starting over with each task is there validity in this argument? Going backwards in order to proceed has often been a strategy of mine for my practice

Anatomy has a 400 year tradition similar to oil painting, religion restricted scientific endeavor for centuries. (Leonardo Da Vinci)

I have retrieved an old GoPro camera not used in years and tested it with a view to use it for streaming my Pecha Kucha.

Poetry Corner

Through the anatomical mirror reflection; dry vivid extracted bone,
is blood yellow stone, from a white hot empty hole.

Abstracted eternal bile; cold black sight of crystal sound,
and wet oozing red hue organs echo all around.

It's a Result!

When i got back into the studio from the Glynn Vivian i had a scheduled Zoom meeting with Dr Sam Webster of the College of Medicine, i didn't expect much to be fair. I had actually been thinking of staging an installation with my medical equipment, adding a gurney, table with scalpels and kidney bowls but no organs; it is up to the viewer to 'Visualise a Pile of Human Organs'.

But the good doctor was most agreeable and after i had explained that i needed access to resources for the study and drawing of human tissue, he invited me to the facility next Wednesday (27th) to show me around.

This is brilliant, i am very pleased and excited, he also suggested some sources of anatomical illustration both historical and contemporary that i am now researching, including; Galen, Vesalius, Moore and Netter.

I celebrated by producing another lovely bit of Bacon.

The rest of the afternoon i spent in the Dynevor Building with Peter Spriggs preparing screens for printing.

Carlos Bunga

So this Wednesday whilst in uni i decided to pop over the road to visit the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. A most fortuitous idea as it goes; there is currently an exhibition by the Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga. As you enter the atrium you are confronted by an intense yellow carpet of pigment on the floor space 'Habitar al color', 2015 - 2021. There is a video of the artist at work creating the work, he put down plastic sheeting, built some shuttering, and pours pva glue which he then mixes with pigment and scrapes it all around. I thought that if this was blood red it would definitely be something for my thought experiment. Further on in the exhibition i came across 'Construccion pictorica vertical. Naturaleza #5' & '#6', these were similarly made from pva and pigment, but spread on cardboard. I will give this process a go and produce a piece for my studio, in blood red.

Blood on the Saddle

There was blood on the saddle and blood all around
And a great big puddle of blood on the ground

A cowboy lay in it all covered with gore
And he never will ride any broncos no more

Oh, pity the cowboy, all bloody and red
For the bronco fell on him and bashed in his head

There was blood on the saddle and blood all around
And a great big puddle of blood on the ground

Tex Ritter


(...and return to Bacon...)

We're on a Roll!

In our household we recycle the inner cardboard tube from bog paper rolls in a couple of ways; they can be used to propagate seedlings before planting in our poly tunnel, we also stuff them inside each other to create cardboard kindle for lighting our Rayburn.

This morning whilst stuffing one used up roll inside a potential kindle tube, i paused and thought how these randomly stuffed objects reminded me of either a brain or seed cross section or creature gestating within an egg. I immediately scoured the house, securing all the tubes i could find and took them to the studio.

I didn't actually have a plan, but i thought i could multiply the effect by slicing the tubes on my band saw. Now the different patterns they have formed are repeated.

Then i recalled a song by the notorious German punk band Angeshissen; 'Blut im Urin'...

Dialogue - At Last

From: Mark Spillane

Sent: 14 October 2021 10:59

To: Mark Stewart-Deane (1810058)

Cc: Greg Barber; Samuel Webster; GEM Lab Technicians

Subject: Human Tissue and Lab Access

Hi Mark,

I have discussed your request with our Senior Anatomy Lecturer and Technical Manager.

Please could you provide more details regarding your tight schedule and deadline, when were you looking to access the Anatomy facilities at Swansea University?

Access to human tissue is governed under strict protocols enforced by the Human Tissue Authority and for which we would need references, identification, supervision and a meeting with our Senior Anatomy Lecturer to discuss it first. We would need to determine what would be created, how much time this would take, how the creations would be shared, what other information you as the student might collect, plus a discussion of a number of health and safety and Human Tissue legislation issues. This may not fall within your tight schedule and deadline.

Similarly, for access to the Anatomy Lab and the use of its resources we would still need references, identification and an a priori discussion.

Regards,

Mark.

Mark Spillane

Anatomy Lead Technician,

Room 154b Grove Building,

Swansea University,

Singleton Campus,

SA2 8PP

Tel: 01792 602159 (ext:2159)

m.r.spillane@swansea.ac.uk



From: Mark Stewart-Deane (1810058)

Sent: 19 October 2021 08:35

To: Mark Spillane

Cc: Hamish Gane, Craig Wood

Subject: RE: Human Tissue and Lab Access

Hello Mark,

Thank you for your reply.

My deadline for this particular module is the 5th of November, the module is only six weeks long and is a philosophical ‘thought experiment’.

I have a 150 mile round trip to come into Swansea from where I live near Fishguard. I plan to come in only one day a week; Wednesdays, this gives me two days in my studio at home and two days that are pretty much back to back lectures and tutorials online. Ideally I would like to have access one or more Wednesdays before the 5th of November.

I cannot really predict what will come out of the project as it is after all an experiment, but the idea is to confront oneself (the artist) with stimuli outside the usual scope of ones regular practice and experience.

This personal brief was not selected by myself but is allocated at random, and it does very strongly call for a study of human anatomy.

I have been researching artists; Damien Hirst, Francis Bacon, Chaim Soutine and Rembrandt. All of whom have worked from life in order to better understand their subjects.

It may be that the material gathered during this thought experiment goes onto inform my interrogations throughout my MA an onwards into my PHD proposals, but I really cannot say at this stage.

I really hope that you can find your way to grant access, sooner rather than later. I will be available tomorrow (Wednesday 20th) for a meeting if this is convenient, hopefully in the morning as I have a workshop booked for 14:00.

I have asked Dr Hamish Gane my senior tutor for a reference letter, if I do not receive this in time I can still identify myself as am MA Fine Art student with my ID card.

I look forward to hearing back from you,

Best regards,

Mark

Mark Deane

07816 640684

www.deanobase.com

A Skulk of Jobsworth

More frustrations with getting access to resources; the abattoir after agreeing i could draw from life are coming up with a plethora of excuses as to why i now cannot. Apparently lead from pencils could get into the food chain, when i suggested using blood as ink this is a 'category 2 food waste' and cannot possibly be used, it goes on and on, quite honestly it is just so boring.

What on earth have we become where nobody is prepared to let anybody do anything ?

I despair, 150,000 years of human history and the dumbing down is complete, a species of absolute morons...

Anyway, i have been tinkering with my installation, its a combination of machines and representations of the flesh so far, but it might be a bit too literal..

My father sent me a sketch of the dialysis machine he has to use 3 times a week.

Its a tough call to be reliant on one of those things for life.

How do you make yourself a body without organs?

"Why such a dreary parade of sucked-dry, catatonicized, vitrified, sewn-up bodies, when the BwO is also full of gaiety, ecstasy, and dance? So why these examples, why must we start there? Emptied bodies instead of full ones. What happened? Were you cautious enough? Not wisdom, cau- tion. In doses. As a rule immanent to experimentation: injections of cau- tion. Many have been defeated in this battle. Is it really so sad and dangerous to be fed up with seeing with your eyes, breathing with your lungs, swallowing with your mouth, talking with your tongue, thinking with your brain, having an anus and larynx, head and legs? Why not walk on your head, sing with your sinuses, see through your skin, breathe with your belly: the simple Thing, the Entity, the full Body, the stationary Voyage, Anorexia, cutaneous Vision, Yoga, Krishna, Love, Experimentation. Where psychoanalysis says, "Stop, find your self again," we should say instead, "Let's go further still, we haven't found our BwO yet, we haven't sufficiently dismantled our self." Substitute forgetting for anamnesis, experimentation for interpretation. Find your body without organs. Find out how to make it. It's a question of life and death, youth and old age, sad- ness and joy. It is where everything is played out."

Deleuze Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus; Capitalism and Schizophrenia


(First stage of becoming a body without organs Photoshop mock up on the right)

'What have i done? I've created a monster'

I remembered, it came at me like a free diver approaching the surface at speed just about to go into an apnea shallow water blackout, 'HYMN' 1999-2005!

Of course the him that wasn't his; Damien Hirst and the contentious great 6 ton x 20 ft bronze re appropriated anatomical educational toy, how could i have forgotten about that?

Hirst had a series off the back of that, including; 'The Virgin Mother', 2008, 'The Anatomy of an Angel, 2008', 'Saint Bartholomew, Exquisite Pain' 2008 and 'Temple' 2008, a busy year...

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/30/damien-hirst-what-have-i-done-ive-created-a-monster

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/19/claredyer1

During the lecture on post modernism the Georges Pompidou museum for modern art was discussed, how the service infrastructure is on the outside of the building giving its unique aesthetic.

This gave me an idea for a T-shirt; displaying anatomical features of the body.

(Photoshop mock up on the left)

DIY Autopsy

I decided that if i couldn't get anywhere with the med school i would perform an autopsy at home!

I had some large cardboard boxes that when i opened them up were a respectable 4 ft x 5 ft. I screwed them to my studio wall.

I then dug around the internet to find a few simple anatomical diagrams that consisted of complete human bodies populated with organs both to scale and in the correct locations.

I projected the images onto the opened cardboard boxes with my dodgy old projector whilst deciding what to do next. But before i could go further the projector went on the blink.

So i spent the rest of the day researching up to date LED projectors; all their lumens and various connectivities. I eventually selected one to my satisfaction and bought it, i hope it arrives punctually.

When i next checked my mail i had a reply from the Med school...tsk...

Things are moving fast; because of Brexit a pal of mine and his German wife are packing up to emigrate back to the EU, who can blame them?

David is getting rid of lots of his stuff, he is a bit of a collector as well as a budding ceramicist. I had been discussing my thought experiment with him and he invited me over. As his wife is a veterinary surgeon apparently there is plenty of old surgical/ medical equipment that was going to the tip.

Needless to say i was over there like a shot; if you are going to do a home autopsy then you have to do it properly!

So here is my first use of the equipment, well out of the comfort zone as i have never created an installation before.

Walk Like an Egyptian

After the diabolical fiasco at the Grove building, i thought i might as well check out the Egyptian Center while i was on the med school campus.

It was about to close as i arrived and the museum attendant cryptically asked me if i wanted life or death? The museum being divided up into these two categories, this was obviously his little joke and probably the highlight of his day as i expect i was the only visitor his entire shift.

I am usually careful what i wish for but I didn't have much time, it had to be death if there was going to be any connection to my thought experiment; i remembered that those old Egyptians used to remove all the organs prior to mummifying their Pharaoh gods for the afterlife.

It was a small collection, but i was rather taken by the hieroglyphics, they might come in handy, on this one artifact they are definitely doing something nasty to someone...

Then i am reminded of 'A Walk Through H' by Peter Greenaway, the series of maps to guide the dead ornithologist through the afterlife. The narration style is similiar to 'Blue' by Derek Jarman.

Shit for Brains

'My nose has been put out of joint'... I phoned Swansea School of Medicine (01792 602697) at the beginning of last week (04/10/21) asking who i should approach in order to have access to anatomical resources for education purposes to; 'get a toe in the door'. I was given an email address (sumsreception@swansea.ac.uk ) instructed to make a request by email, i duly did so. I heard nothing back by the end of the week so i telephoned again to chase up; 'get to the heart of the matter'. I was told my email had been received and forwarded and that i should check in the following week if i heard nothing by then. This morning (13/10/21) i had still not obtained a reply, so i telephoned again and was advised to come into Grove Building at the School of Medicine campus.that afternoon. I turned up at about 14:30, made to wait half an hour in reception, then told that i could not have access; 'given the cold shoulder'. I must say that i find this most disappointing, i thought that art and science should collaborate. Who learns to draw human organs? How and why if not an MA art student? Or do we now know everything about everything and there is no longer a need? I just cannot begin to understand the idiocy behind this blockade. So my afternoon has been wasted, i wish at least they had told me to fuck off over the phone, rather than give the job to the poor apologetic receptionist, that was; 'lily-livered'. It is 75 miles back home and i am too pissed off to do any more work today other than to; 'get this off my chest'.

But i do have an idea for a sculpture; a glass skull with a dog shit for the brain.

(Photoshop mock up on the right)

Darkroom Demo

On campus this week i staked my claim to a space, put up some work i had started at home. I planned on going into the darkrooms and prepared by taking a few photos of compositions from within my 12 ft collage along with print outs i had made from the online anatomical atlas in the library the previous week.

Sarah the technician showed me around the fantastic B&W facilities. Its a welcome change from using my tiny darkroom at home!

I made the most of the morning, prepared and printed a few suitable acetates from the material i had brought in.

I combined acetates with each other, made a few exposures using one of the enlargers, then developed in the chemicals to make the prints.

The project is taking off, the human anatomical shapes are further influenced by my interventions.

I am working intuitively, not thinking, throwing things at each other. The conscious is not getting much of a look in.

Deconstruction Surgery

Meanwhile back in the clinic come studio; the organs that were previously constructed as abstract with tape and then after the substrate had been worked, were revealed and then extracted or deconstructed. The next step was to add enhancements before somehow replacing the organs or reconstructing them, a bit like trying to put a slaughtered animal back together after it has been butchered, a hopeless task.

The operation was performed whilst listening to "Blue" 1993 by Derek Jarman, the medical references providing some vital inspiration; "The Gautama Buddha tells me to walk away from illness, but he wasn't attached to a drip".

Which reminds me of Robert Rauchenberg's "Gold Standard", created during a performance in 1964. I saw this at the Tate retrospective 2017; a folding Japanese screen with porcelain dog on a broken bicycle chained to it.

Perhaps i could give my work some palliative privacy and life support, within the drawn curtain various drips, colostomy bags are attached and a device to monitor vital signs, the machine that goes 'ping'?

Then back to Bacon; "Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe", 1963. In any case the 12 ft collage is open to further interrogation; after it dries i will look for compositional elements within it, to exploit and further manipulate.

Concurrently; related and painstaking surgery was performed on; intestines, kidneys and heart. The abstracted organs were dissected and then rearranged. No idea how to continue with this, but we must persevere. Most probably doomed to failure as both medical procedure and artistic endeavor, never mind.

Fig. 8

All in the Best Possible Taste

I had another Peter Greenaway film i wanted to revisit; 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover' 1989. It was the same gruesome, twisted revenge tale as i remember, Greenaway never seems to disappoint. Food, sex, death; the tasty parts are always close to the dirty parts... "Try the cock, you know where it's been!"

I thought it was a fitting film to watch, offering up another option as to what to do with all those organs, if you were hungry enough? Then the 'Raft of the Medusa', 1818 by Géricault drifts into view and i am standing before that terrible sight in the Louvre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ODPFiksBE

But cultural cannibalism is a thing and actually used by the very people who practiced it as propaganda to stigmatise and dehumanise the other.

For some reason i think of Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, 1954, my favorite of all his works. I remember the character Butcher Beynon teases his wife about imaginary meat he sells, with the line; "owlmeat, dogs' eyes, manchop"

Fig. 7

On the topic of victuals, i have learned that Chaim Soutine's 'Carcass of Beef', 1924 series was inspired by Rembrandt's 'The Carcass of an Ox',1645.

That Soutine made friends of the workers at the abattoirs in order to draw and paint carcasses from life.

'Figure with Meat', 1954 and other works by Francis Bacon that feature carcasses also appear to be of a similar tradition, i need to research this further.

I am hoping that i will get a positive response from the medical school and not be tarred by the same brush as Anthony-Noel Kelly. Otherwise i may have to acquire some legal animal meat to work with, this will be tough for me, being vegan, conflicting and confronting ethics.

Fig. 6

Campus Capers

I made my way to Swansea on the 6th of October to find my own way around the campus, an early start, i left home at about 7:30 and arrived about 9 am,.but i need to make the most of these days that i come in and i had much to squeeze in. As it turns out is was a most productive day; i had a snoop around the Alex building, but no one home really, although i was struck by how many computer suites there were for an art school. I walked over to the IQ building where i was issued my pass and i registered some credit with the uni printers.

Fig. 5

The rest of the morning was spent researching in the library, i have discovered the joys of BOB and all the online films available to me.

I checked out a great selection of Francis Bacon books and a few on Andy Goldsworthy; the practitioner i selected for my research primer, whose work may or may not be significant in my thought experiment.

Whilst searching for material on anatomy one very helpful librarian Emily, pointed me to the online anatomical atlas, which turns out to be an excellent resource and kept me busy for quite some time; i was able to identify human organs in 3 dimensions, rotate and position them, enlarge and even print out.

The limbic system was one rather striking image i was able to isolate and reminds me of sci-fi head gear costume from somewhere.

I would like to take this study of anatomy further and have sent an email to Swansea University Medical School;

"I am a post graduate student at Swansea College of Art studying an MA in Fine Art and my personal brief requires that i look at human anatomy, specifically internal organs.I am writing to kindly ask if it would be possible to have access to appropriate departments within your campus to further my studies?

I propose to sketch, draw, photograph human organs from life if possible. I would also like to have some access to reference materials, models or other resources and ideally perhaps interview students or a professor at some convenient time."

For lunch i met my former painting tutor from Jobswell; Peter Spriggs at the Dynevor building. We discussed my thought experiment and i disclosed that i might be interested in post humanism and ethics. Peter ruefully observed that computers seemed to be filling up space on campus and that we should have listened to Peter Hawkins more closely, to which i replied that we just have to try and make the best of a bad thing now. Peter suggested i look at the work of Anthony-Noel Kelly; infamously charged with stealing body parts from the Royal College of Surgeons, Chaim Soutine and 'The Carcass of an Ox' by Rembrandt. He invited me for an induction in the printing department where he now works that afternoon. Later Peter introduced me to Mo Chapman and we set a date for an induction of Riso printing in the afternoon of Wednesday the 13th. I also touched base with Sarah Tierney and arranged another induction for next Wednesday in the photographic department.

Finally i won a copy the children's game 'Operation' on Ebay, its a whim, it should be fun!

Failure is an Option

If one sets out to not succeed, the resulting failure is actually a relative success. For some light entertainment I watched 'Otway the Movie', it's about the performer John Otway who dubs himself; 'Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure'. It was rather insightful and inspiring as the chant used to go at his gigs; 'Cant sing, cant play, what's his name, Otway!', gives us hope yet. Otway managed to flirt with the limelight since 1977, managing 2 top ten hits, a concert at the Albert Hall, a film and very nearly a world tour. Otway's enthusiasm, cheek and cack handed DIY somehow carried him through and he really did get away with quite a lot, taunting the recording business throughout his career.

Maybe my pile of human organs could be used to not assist post structuralist humanism? Or not deconstruct post human structuralism?

Work in Progress: with surgical precision the human organs are removed and placed in a visualised pile...

Resurrection of Meat

I printed off a few more simple educational anatomical diagrams, to better find basic shapes. I made some pencil sketches and added water colour wash, the little drawings i thought looked kind of fruity. Although i have done plenty of life drawing including studies of the muscular and skeleton, i have never really studied the anatomy of organs, so i thought it a good idea just to start practicing, to get a feel for the shapes.

I then revisited the A2 gridded sheets and found some line that the first marks suggested, using charcoal and some grey paint. This gave me the confidence to attack the 12 ft of wallpaper. I first made 4 very rough organ shaped suggestions from masking tape (that i will later remove to reposition) and then used a 4 inch brush to apply the red emulsion over the tape, It's all very loose and open to much more manipulation.

I have been thinking about Post-Humanism, i like the idea of transcending elements of human nature, heightening ethics and intelligence.This brings me to consider John Cage's 4'33', which although it has an absence of intention, manages to intensify the audiences awareness of their environment. I think human organs however depicted might well magnify feelings of mortality in an audience.

It's a Matter of Splatter

I have set up an inspiration board in my studio, it consists of a few works by Francis Bacon, a couple of anatomical plates and a print of various human organs.

I prepared 4 sheets of A2 with my home made clear gesso and laid grids over the sheets; to divide them up as human organs are extracted from the body so to shall i extract / abstract form and shape. I have also hung up 12 ft from a roll of old wall paper and put gesso on the reverse side that i will be working on. My intention here is to perhaps work with collage, again extracting shape and form from somewhere and reassemble.

This has reminded me of Gunther von Hagens and his controversial plasticised then sliced wafers of human cadavers; processed and then abstracted...

The first marks i had made on one sheet of buff were black paint applied with brush from a previous project that i had not gone on to use. I applied some appropriate red emulsion i had laying around over this, in order to vary the marks i used an implement i had made from the cardboard tubes that hold toilet paper. For the other 3 sheets i applied the red with a 2 inch brush. In each case whilst applying the paint i focused on one or more of the images on the inspiration board.

I think this is a reasonably loose start and i am looking forward to getting back into the studio to crack on this week, throwing a few more processes into the mix.

Number 18

The number i chose for the Thought Experiment was 18, this was because on the day, first of October is our 18th wedding anniversary. However the Thought Experiment i was assigned did not really have much in common with my very happy marriage!

I was tasked with; "Visualise a pile of human organs", a rather macabre, gruesome or grotesque proposition. Not what i expected at all. My first visualisations were Baconesque in nature and although i tried to push them away and look for something else, my tutor Craig advised me to stick with my first instincts and begin there.

On another note my father had liver failure earlier this year, this was due to a benign but large cyst on his pancreas. Although his liver has now recovered rather sadly his kidneys were damaged and have stopped working, he is now on dialysis 3 times a week.

So to making; my plan started with searching the internet for a few of Francis Bacon's paintings to download and print off for an inspiration board and begin some loose sketching. The carousel contains a few of the selections i made and below is a doodle i made in my notebook during the meeting.