Recently, I went with Eric and some friends to see the Body Worlds 2 exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston. At first it’s interesting and perhaps fascinating, but a little goes a long way, and very quickly it becomes creepy. And I say that as a one-time student of human anatomy for artists.
What makes it disturbing are the macabre positions and situations in which the preserved corpses are placed. After a while one gets the disquieting sense the exhibit isn’t so much instructive as it is perhaps the expression of one man’s ghoulish fetish. Mel Gibson would find it a turn-on.