The body as a container

For one moment let us consider the space the body occupies. Imagine a single line drawn around the shape of yourself. Your body protected by your skin, your outer membrane, is your container. This container is unique in shape and full of well organised bones, blood, cells, nerves, knowledge, experience, emotion and much more. It is so clever; top machinery in fact. It self-regulates with little conscious input and contacts us with the language of discomfort or pain to signal if it is in distress. I am interested in the body as a way of reminding myself that I am human, just like you. We see the world differently and it is precisely this difference in perspective and experience that we will explore together in the G-Lands. 

Below, Osiris our salivary gland specimen has no body. They are currently occupying a new container, refrigerated in the Emmerson Lab, waiting quietly for the next experiment. Osiris must have seen some things and encountered some characters as they migrated through the G-Lands, from body to fridge. Let's take a moment consider the shape of Osiris' absence inside the patient now living without it. 

Thank you for reading.

Emily

Osiris in the Emmerson Lab fridge : CRM

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• To discover more about Dr Elaine Emmerson’s research you can visit  http://crm.ed.ac.uk/research/group/manipulating-stem-cell-niche-promote-regeneration

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