Came across this while looking for animation artists whose work might be inspiring for my own. They are images of fruit & vegetables placed in an MRI scanner, taken by British MRI technician Andy Elison. He discovered their surreal yet somewhat disturbing beauty after scanning an orange to calibrate the machine. Thereafter he began bringing produce to work and scanning it & posting the images on his blog
http://insideinsides.blogspot.co.uk/
"The high-resolution black and white sequences apply the imaging tool
to the arts, highlighting the geometrical perfection of organic objects.
The slow motion animations are imbued with a sense of life and
vitality; like pumping ventricles, the matrices of a pineapple seem to
gape open and shut. A tomato resembles a microscopic cell, seemingly
splitting and reproducing with astonishing speed, and a head of garlic
seems to emerge, its cloves flawlessly woven together, from nothingness.
Ellison’s slow motion animation allows mesmerized viewers to be
seduced by the rhythmic revelations, and the everyday is elevated to
cosmic levels; an scanned eggplant seems to explode into a complex
network of stars. These food products, these mundane miracles, get a
moment to shine in the imaging machine’s dense whites and pure,
weightless blacks. The uniqueness of each fruit takes center stage (can
you find the bruised onion?), and together, they paint a rich portrait
of the natural world. These elegant plant structures, viewed in this
way, don’t seem so different from our very own organs. So the next time
you stroll down the produce aisle, take a moment to consider the
miraculous visions that lurk beneath the surface. (via Salon and Offbeat)"
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