Artwork
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Nickolai’s artwork is often inspired by the medical community. He works by cutting black masking tape on panels of painted wood to reveal an image beneath. Producing the work required a “surgical process” where the tape acts as skin and his xacto knife, a scalpel. Creating the 1001cuts piece literally required hundreds of cuts to produce, perhaps even one thousand and one cuts.
The plants represented have symbolism and/or medicinal properties: White Hibiscus - femininity; Orange/red Coneflower - strength and healing; Purple/white Mallow (Malva) - protection, healing and love; Purple Foxglove (Digitalis) - whole plant is poisonous but chemicals from the flower are used to make a prescription drug used for the heart; Dandelion (Taraxacum) - used for infections and as a ‘cleanser’. Symbolizes health, power, perseverance, endurance and determination; Purple Clematis- mental strength, ingenuity; Yellow Verbascum (Mullein) - courage, protection and health; Yellow Hypoxis - history of use in infection, diabetes, boosting immunity. Symbolizes health; White Jasmine - used to treat eye, skin diseases, depression and insomnia
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“B-roll”
In the making of this film we were limited amount of “B roll” - stock footage - of surgeons who are women. To improvise we put out a call on social media for photos of women surgeons in their daily life. Just a few days later we had received over a hundred photos from all over the world. We’ve posted a few below.
Production Photos
