Ah. Well, that's one of the more overtly disturbing pieces you've done. Not that I don't like it, because I do like it. It caught me unprepared, I think, and good art should push the boundaries sometimes. The images here are really fascinating, with anatomy-text, mixed with the animals. It's a fascinating foray into the scary world of psuedo and near-science world where terrible and wonderful things can happen.

Scary one, please post in future before my bedtime ;)

Beautifully weird !

Fascinating image, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

little bit of hellraiser in all of us mandi!! scarily cool n dark in a pleasant sort of way I am a great lover of all thngs horror! maybe clive barker should consider this for a book cover!! Nicely done my friend!

Captivating-well done!

Amazing image..interesting work! :)

Fantastic work with a surreal feel to it!

I agree with Bern... beautifully weird. Superb work of art, Mandi!!

Mandi, this is one of the coolest pics I've seen in some time

living neurobiology !

Amazing work as usual! Superb!

Fantastic and creative collage, Mandi!!!

very artistic oeuvre! congratulations:)

Hmmm...First thing I think of is how we seem to need to gobble, kill, and control everything in our path.

Fascinating ...

great composition

Fantastic composition!!

A most unique and fascinating piece. There is so much that one could read into this. I think this is your expression of passion for your art. Outstanding work!

magnifique!!!

Frigging awesome !!

Absolutely fantastic my dear friend, the colors are just fascinating! ***

This for sure is very disturbing, very questioning but great on the other hand...your imagination and your talent are endless.

your fascination with old science & medical imagery is endlessly entrancing, your montages of these images never abandons their strange allure, yet always results in a work that's entirely yours. The brain maps (with those wonderful old titles, "ideation," "marvelousness," "hope," "imitation," etc, presumably mapping out what portions of the brain do or are for) are strange & enticing to begin with; but in your hands they're objects of mystifying abstraction & they're a lot of fun. The two full adult faces seem identical, except one is horizontal as if being studied or even dissected. (A lot of medical implications here.) One of the heads (right side) shows a cross section of the brain plus the various organs inside the head, and it's a fine abstract in counterpoint to the other two faces. (Nice use of a shell for the eye of one of them.) You have at least two old "snake oil" motifs, one atop with a label/ad for old pills or powders of some kind (the font & curvature of the words gives away its age), and that bottle in the center---partially obscured---with something "company's" something-or-other on the label (magic water? a cold cure? who knows!). And the old collars & ties (& pre dry-cleaning wrinkled vests) speak of the turn of the last century or older, as does that strange figure, left bottom, who could be male or female (my guess: female) who seems to come right out of Barnum & Bailey, or one of those old ads with an exotic princess who's selling medicine or teas or chocolates or soaps...And an infrared bird, one of your fish, a dog (I think) who looks a bit perturbed & dangerous, and a sense that they're about to sit down to a meal, even though the overall feel is strangely medical. The red douses it all in a passion we don't understand---we're outsiders---but which we can see as clearly as the sun. And that's one of your strengths---your ability to portray an inner logic that we don't 'get' but which is whole as can be in the context of the work. This feels like a big performance, an old circus-barker performance, with a head on display like john the baptist, and an abstract work full of strange visual music. (I have a label here for fig syrup---turn of the last century---which looks a little like some of this piece.) A marvelous, disturbing and fun piece; and, for all its red, it feels like an ultra-violet infrared photograph and a construct in an old scientist's mind. Wonderfully inventive, Mandi.