The Mind and Body exhibit at the Denver Nature and Science museum is more extraordinary than anything you can imagine. Already having high expectations for the exhibit, it has exceeded those expectations. In the modern time including the past five to ten years there has been a huge outbreak in the health craze as well as medically with the preservations of the human body tissue. There are so many ways to analyze the exhibit. Although Body Worlds is there to benefit humanity.
It is there to have people make changes in their life and how they go about a daily activity. To teach people how the body works and act upon how to change their lives in a positive way by seeing first hand what certain items can have an effect on your body. Having people realize and understand the true meaning of the body because it is the one thing that humans have not been able to produce or recreate there is so much that fascinates our minds. “It is there for the enlightenment and contemplation of each person.”(quote from creator of the exhibits) This is what it had done for me, I was amazed at all the plastination of the bodies. It really made me think of my self image and how I work as a human being. Its like looking into a mirror.
The purpose for my presentation through a slide show is using the idea of seeing as a way to prove my point that seeing the image of a body is more powerful than touching because to see it first person still makes it something that you can identify with but still be repulsed. The body is a need of itself and it is more than our brian can master. We do not treat our bodies as an object because we can not handle the complexity of how it works. It is amazing for the fact that nature can make something so complex. As a human you can identify that it is another human but at the same time be repulsed by the fact that it is a human.
My audience is Humanity, all the people around the world because everyone can learn from the exhibit and have an effect on their body afterwards by understanding how complex we are as humans. Which brings me to my next point stating that the exigence is the body itself because it has a need of itself. We need to feed it and take care of it or else it will not work. The majority of people need to understand what the body. Our bodies can not be seen merely as an object because it is more than just another object.
If you were to touch the bodies it makes it feel like matter, therefore more like an object but seeing gives you the exhilarating feeling while still realizing that it is a human. From that you begin to question the back story of the body what was the persons name, what did he/she do, how did they die, etc. Seeing it makes your realize how complex you really are and you can not master yourself. It is a self realization and impossible to say that you can control everything your mind and body does. Seeing the body is also like looking into a mirror of self image. Imagining yourself doing the same activity and understanding that it could be you.
Finally the bodies are positioned as a form of art so that people can admire the complexity of the body compared to even some of the most complex man-made objects. It puts us in the category of nature when the bodies can look like other things in nature and helps us understand that we are nature and we have a need that needs to be met. Man-made objects all have answers and there are some questions that we will never be able to solve about ourselves. Seeing the activities an emotion that each body possess makes it even more human in your mind. When seeing someone doing the activity you do not think of it in the same light.
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