Schemageist
ART BOOK - 55 pages, 6.5 x 9in., cardstock, acetate, mylar
naive and apophenic interpretations of medical imaging.
Schemageist aimed to address
the obtuse, alienating qualities of hard to decipher medical imagery one might encounter when diagnosing
or recovering from an illness. Instead of interpreting the imagery as a medical professional, the book
interprets it through a layman’s perspective - seeing faces, making emotional connections - in order
to regain agency in understanding and identifying their body.
Cryptic and off-putting in nature, the book aims to express how a non-expert patient might see illness
or disease in their body - as a supernatural entity, a parasite, a hijacking.
To evoke that of a dense medical file, the book contains pages of varying transparency, overlaying
schematics, diagrams, x-rays and other medical imaging techniques to capture and chart the effects of a
disease on the body.
