Heart and Swab Drawings

In Heart, Prophet subverts the functionality of an SLS Rapid Prototype machine – commonly used for modelling prototypes ready for multiple manufacturing runs by both the car industry and NASA. Prophet has instead employed this machine to replicate, from an MRI scan, a human heart. Reproduced at two different scales then gold-leafed or coated with silver, the structure and detail of the heart can be seen fully as it is in situ. Heart twists the idea of transplant, turning this vital human organ into a precious art object; a dual play on what could be seen as the ultimate commodity. Extract of text from The Belfry.