Bodyworks exhibit

Went to see the Bodyworks exhibit at the Telus Space and Science Centre. I went with a bunch of my friends. They were finished about 30 - 45 minutes before I was. But then again, they’ve never taken any biology courses. I had Human Osteology in University so it was loads of fun to see exactly how the flesh was attached (or detached) to the body. And yes, when I got to the exhibit w/ the horse and rider, there was a lotta gawking at the horse’s...member. Although these 2 women next to me remarked a lot more about it to each other and then compared it to their horses. Anyways, other than that part of the horse, I was wondering if I could actually see the horse’s 4-chamber stomach. It just looked like a big sac. Although the 2 ladies were oddly surprised that the horse’s lungs were so big, which made me wonder how much they knew about horses in the first place... other than that part. Quite surprised that most of the exhibits were out in the open, and had a bit of cobwebs on them. Had to keep my hands clasped behind my back to avoid touching them. Was allowed to touch a lung and some cross-sections of the ulna. D remarked how few female specimens there were. And he finished early and then started hovering around me. Which is really annoying since I was in the reproductive and lower bits section, and he’s a sex-fiend. It’s much better to see the full version of all the body parts instead of in a book. Easier to figure their relationships to each other. And w/ the specimens that had the layers of muscles revealed, I tried to figure out how to attach additional body parts to that area like wings and such. Easiest is really the tail b/c we used to have them.

When I told my co-workers about the exhibit, a few of them were squirmish, especially our acting manager. I dunno, it wasn’t that bad. But then again, I did eat lunch while watching a film about trephination on the skull. Just watching them drill and then saw away at the skull. Heh heh.

Then that night, I read the “if you should die” chapter in The Kurasagi Corpse Delivery Service Vol. 4 and it was pretty creepy. Not really the body parts, although the living daruma was scary. But more that it could be entirely possible to disguise torture and living dissections as exhibits...and maybe I went to one. A lot of the drawings were similar to the dissections of the bodies at the exhibit. Yeah, I was creeped out.