Body Worlds; shopping with Brenna

[vaneramos]

St. Lawrence Market


Brenna and I spent Friday afternoon exploring Ontario Science Centre, especially Body Worlds 2, a temporary exhibit featuring 200 specimens of people who donated their bodies. It provides unprecedented insight into health and anatomy. It seems a bold undertaking, pushing buttons about the body as temple of a life. The average person never sees cadavers this way. A little gruesome, but mostly I was fascinated. Some specimens were presented as sculptures, people in lifelike postures. Their skin had been removed, rendering them unrecognizable. The one that sticks in my mind is Angel, named for the way her back muscles were dissected to reveal underlying nerves. She had gorgeous, long red hair.

Today’s shopping excursion was lighter. At St. Lawrence Market we bought lemons and poppy seeds to make Brenna’s birthday cake; also russet apples, a rare autumn treat. I took her to the Old Distillery to see glass bead makers, but her eyes lit up when we walked into Wildhagen hats. The new bead store on Roncesvalles Avenue doesn’t compare to Arton. We stopped at Romney Wools where Brenna help pick yarn for a scarf I plan to knit for Mom for Christmas: we chose orange and red Scheepjes Alpine.

Comments

[dakoopst.livejournal.com]

My goodness...is she standing on something there, or has she hit a growth spurt? She looks very tall....

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

She was taller than average, but the woman in the foreground was short, adding to the effect. The woman at the right edge of the photo was more of average height.

[kwangjse.livejournal.com]

Brenna is really growing up! I love your icon, but I think the exhibit would have creeped me out, yet fascinated me as well.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

That icon is a year old, and I can already see she has changed. Time for some new ones!