Carla Valentine

Carla Valentine Instagram – Ear, grown from scratch! 👂I love this because it makes me think about how different things could be for Dr Frankenstein if he attempted to make his monster nowadays, or another 100 years in the future. No more body snatching! This is actually Vincent Van Gogh’s ear: In 2014, Italian artist Diemut Strebe began an art-meets-science project in which she cloned Vincent Van Gogh’s ear. It was genetically engineered with biological material taken from Van Gogh’s brother’s great-great-grandson Theo Van Gogh, and placed on display in the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany. It was a very lengthy process. First a plastic surgeon removed some of Theo’s ear skin as a base. To replicate the real shape of van Gogh’s ear, Strebe consulted the one historical photo of the artist available. With the help of another artist, she recalculated the angle at which the photo was taken—factoring in the supposed focal length of a camera lens from the late 1800s—and extrapolated those measurements into a 3-D printed mold in the shape of Vincent van Gogh’s ear. Then Strebe filled the mold with an organic polymer, seeded it with the genetically mutated cells from Theo, and let the matter grow. The results are, according to her, completely alive. Pretty extraordinary.
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