Inspiration of the Week - Frank To

Frank To is a Scottish artist who normally works in painting.

However one of his projects in 2011 was looking at the plague doctors and part of his work was him dressed as a plague docotor heading from Glasgow to Edinburgh to his own exhibition.

This work highlighted a very important part in Scottish and worldwide history and also focuses on one of the most visually interesting and almost scary parts of medieval times.

 The reason that I am looking at this work today is that for y next project I am looking for some sort of purpose of going on site with my work, and I think Frank To's purpose here is very interesting. The plague doctors have almost become a forgotten part of out history even though they played a big part and do have interesting lores surrounding them.

 And so how better to remind the public of them than to go out dressed as a plague doctor.

I think that this is a very innovative way to both increase notoriety for his exhibition, and also highlight the importance of his work and that piece of Scottish history.

NB - all photographs here have been taken from these sites in which the artist is featured:

http://www.franktofineart.com/
http://www.franktofineart.com/index.php?id=17 (Press section)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/27215020@N04/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-12934050

I do not own any of the pictures on this post. Full credit given to the artist.

See you next time :)
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Róisín -x