X-Ray Images of Nick Veasey and Arie van 't Riet
Typically, you won't see the ghostly images of an x-ray unless you've broken a bone, need wisdom teeth removed, or think you swallowed something you shouldn't have. Visual artist Nick Veasey and medical physicist Arie van 't Riet explore the internal nature of nature using the vehicle of x-rays. Take anything, animate or inanimate, fire radiation at it, and you will end up with a delicate skeleton of the object; often just overlaps of density outlined with a whisper of distinction from the black background. Nick Veasey "To create these x-ray artworks serious risks and procedural hurdles need to be managed. The results are worth the hassle. X-ray allows us to see what is normally hidden to the human eye. It reveals the subjects from the inside out and allows us to appreciate what the world around us is truly made of. In contemporary life, where so much of what we see has been embellished or has a level of artifice, the honesty and integrity the x-ray revea...