Paper Surgery

Gotta love these paper body enhancements by Dutch artist duo Lucy and Bart. “Exploded View” is from clear back in 2007, but I didn’t see it then so maybe you didn’t either. They describe themselves like this:
LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess, described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low-tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement.
Which as far as I can tell is a more serious way of saying that they glue various things to themselves and then take nice photos. Which I am 100% behind. They also have this freaky website and turn themselves into armadillo-ducks and both seem to be ridiculously good looking. Ten thousand points to everyone!



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