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Hello everyone and welcome back to another post from your favourite person, the Historic Heathen. This week I wanted to share with you some experiences from my RAship at the Medical Artifact Collection at Western. So this collection is a teaching collection as well as a resource for medical related history. The collection is rather large and is housed in Lawson hall on the main campus at Western University.

My first day at the archive was pretty chaotic, there was a power surge which caused a very small flood to occur in the collection room as well as a temporary power outage. As you can imagine, floods and collection rooms do not mix very well. However, we managed to get a hold of facilities management to shut off the HVAC system which was causing the flooding. Flood aside, I was given the task of cataloguing the new acquisitions, COVID-19 related artifacts. I was so beyond excited to begin because I would actually be archiving and getting that experience.

There are however a lot of boxes to check off while you are cataloguing that I had no idea were so significant. For instance, getting a concise description of what materials the item is made of was something that I had never thought about before. I knew it was important because you need to know what an item is made out of, but I never realized how important those little details could be. Of course the collection has a large amount of medicine and other dangerous items such as needles but there are also more hidden dangers such as thermometers which house mercury, also quite deadly. I was told on my first day that if anything scratches me or punctures my skin that I needed to get a tetanus shot, which at the time seemed really odd but then I realized there is a very large amount of needles and lancets and other sharp objects within the cabinets.

Finally today I was given a task which actually forced me to explore the collection much further than opening a cabinet and picking out something interesting looking for my weekly post on the Twitter page. I was asked to go through the collection and photograph all items which were missing photos for their files. Little did I know this was a very large project that I was happily undertaking and I began to search for the photoless artifacts. The search led me into deep thought, every time I opened a cabinet and peered into a drawer or onto a shelf I was completely engulfed in the history of the items in front of me. It was more than just a simple task, it was a chance to immerse myself in the collection, longing to know more about the people who used these items and how their lives were impacted by such items.

Anyways, I think I took a total of 5 photos before the camera battery died but hopefully I will get this task finished soon! By the end of the term, I will also have made an exhibit on the history of pills, apothecaries and quack medicine.

Until next time,

For each of its exhibitions, the Parc-Saint-Léger contemporary art center publishes a catalog for children listing the various artworks as well as explanations and historical references. We had to work on the layout of these “Kid books” after a school trip at this art center while keeping the preexisting texts. Regarding my work, the layout of the Kid Books uses the graphic codes of the old books. The covers, as well as the texts, present a font size adapted to young readers. The prints and papers are colored to attract the attention of children. The contrast between the colors of the inks and the colors of the sheets is ensured by the use of complementary colors. Reissue of the Kidbooks offered by the Parc-Saint-Léger contemporary art center. Inserted books, A4 format, 65mg / m2, colored papers, "folder" type. Kid Book n°13, Stéphanie Saadé, “Traversée des états”, 36-page edition. Kid Book n°14, Yann Sérandour, “Les eaux courantes”, 44-page edition. Kid Book n°15, Vanessa Billy, “Impressions de vies”, 48 pages edition.

Pour chacune de ses expositions, le centre d’art contemporain de Pougues-les-Eaux édite un livre recensant les diverses œuvres présentes à l’exposition, ainsi qu’un Kid Book. Après une sortie culturelle pédagogique au centre d’art avec notre école, nous devions, en gardant les textes préexistants, rééditer de nouvelles versions des Kid Books du centre, et ainsi repenser son identité visuelle.  Concernant mon travail, la mise en page des Kid Books reprend les codes graphiques des anciens romans de poches. Les couvertures ainsi que les textes présentent un corps adapté aux jeunes lecteurs. Les impressions ainsi que les supports sont colorés afin d’attirer l’attention des enfants. Le contraste entre les couleurs des impressions et les couleurs des feuilles est assuré par l’utilisation de couleurs complémentaires. Réédition des Kidbooks proposés par le centre d’art contemporain de Pougues-les-eaux. Livres encartés, format A4, papiers colorés 65mg/m2, type « chemise ». Kid Book n°13, Stéphanie Saadé, « Traversée des états », édition de 36 pages. Kid Book n°14, Yann Sérandour, « Les eaux courantes », édition de 44 pages. Kid Book n°15, Vanessa Billy, « Impressions de vies », édition de 48 pages.

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I have been playing around with various ways in which i could exhibit my Final Major Project. For the first idea, I have tried to recreate the setting in which we would have most likely been showcasing our work at college, should Covid-19 not of interrupted us. In these images you can see my final piece - the sculpture, along with my sketchbook, New York journal, maquettes and the molds that created them. I have included these items in the display as these would have been necessary to include for our initial assessment.