Scars as an Art Form

This artist celebrates peoples' scars - in his art.

From the article:

"Their titles sound a lot less like museum labels than the check-in charts at a hospital trauma center: “Splenectomy”; “Lung Removal After Suicide Attempt”; “Broken Eye Socket Repair Using Bone From the Skull After Car Accident”; “Arm Reconstruction After Motorcycle Accident.”

These seemingly abstract textures and surfaces are actually images of scars, many of them terrifyingly impressive and some acquired by their wearers with great suffering.

Ted Meyer, a Los Angeles artist, made the prints over the last several years directly from the bodies of friends, acquaintances and willing strangers."

His pieces are showing at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center