Further works at Edinburgh Gallaries - Christine Borland

The next works within the Edinburgh Gallery for Contemporary Art were pieces collected by the Artist Christine Borland.  This particular exhibit was of serious interest to me as it explores the concept of perception and image as inculcated by words alone.  Allow me to explain. The artist created a description of one of the most feared and illusive characters of the 20th century, that being of Joseph Mengele, the infamous and despised Nazi doctor who carried out innumerable experiments upon incarcerated Jews, in the interests of "science".   This is of particular stimulus to me as this individual was one of the few fascist war criminals who escaped Germany at the end of world war two, and a whole set of mythologies seem to have developed as to where he actually escaped to.  It is thought that he traveled to South America, - the place of my own birth.  No one knows what he really looked like as there are very few photos of him.  What Christine Borland has done is to provide a standard description to a select group of six key sculptors and asked them to create busts of the description accordingly.  The following works are actually those sculptor's output.