Professor Alaric Westmere
This fictional 19th-century naturalist draws on the visual language of anatomical atlases like The Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery, rendering mythological beings as specimens for dissection. His digital illustrations emulate the texture and detachment of cadaver studies, reflecting a worldview rooted in control and classification. By mimicking this clinical aesthetic, I’m examining how scientific authority has historically objectified bodies marked as other—transforming difference into monstrosity under the guise of neutrality.
Rowan Dunn, digital 2024