Aortic, matches my grey skin

In a state of hyper-mania, I took the last remaining bit of medical gauze that I had from a few years back when I accidentally sliced open the knuckles on my right hand with a packing blade and wrapped my face. I had my camera out for another set of pictures that I was working on (and let me tell you that setting up photographs with one eye completely bandaged is no easy task - so much for me ever getting an eye patch).


Not the most exciting picture, but it can be used as a mask for another project that I am slowly working on. Feeling it to be a little bit flat though, I chose to overlay some textures and mess with the blending options - something that I had previously only done in the context of textile work and never in photographic work.


Needless to say, I think I'm going to incorporate some more of the gauze into future shots, especially as I prepare to work on a medical-fetish-ish style shoot in the near future, inspired by the medical scares as well as a revisit of an old album by Skinny Puppy entitled VIVIsectVI, which I feel has some odd relevance today.