My Trip to Bodies: The Exhibition

Over the weekend, I had an opportunity to go see Bodies: The Exhibition in NYC. It was an interesting exhibit. They took real people and after they were dead of course, the bodies were preserved and made into a rubbery material, that can be displayed without being inside a liquid or enclosed case. They remove some parts of the skin, muscle, and organs in the various specimens to show the complexity of the human body. It was fascinating to see what the inside of the human body looked like so up close and personal like this. There were even displays of the arteries to be looked at. I noticed how the shapes of nature appear in the human body, which was interesting. Nature repeats its earthly designs. For instance, the arteries look like trees with all the branchs going in seemingly random directions but all delicately planned out as the artery grew in the direction it needed to so it could provide blood to a part of the body like a tree grows a branch in a direction it needs to in order to touch the sunlight. Overall, the exhibit was put together in a tasteful way for a museum type of exhibit. It was certainly creative and well thought out, even to the point of the staff people wearing white lab coats (but to me with all the bodies cut up and organs displayed, I wondered if they wore white lab coats portraying scientists, or white coats as butchers), but it was rather morbid at the same time seeing what were real people forever trapped in this way. Sadly, their physical bodies will unlikely ever be at rest.