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“For the Biopsy paintings 2007 the artist acquired jpegs of different types of cancer cell structures from the Science Photographic Library. The micro-scanned clusters were enlarged to make full size photo-screens which were printed onto large linen canvases. The images were then colour dyed in vivid cerise pinks to searing reds. The paintings were further worked on with scattered glass fragments, diamond dust, hair, cutting blades,  human teeth, trinket. Some of the works were poured with some of the works were poured with pools of clear resin (household gloss) to case the effects. Raised to the wall the giant paintings become mysterious landscapes of the body. There a powerful sensual impact in the pieces, shards of silver blades seem to vibrate and chatter malignly as they spread about in rhythmic clusters. Tangles of dark brown human hair in Skin Mole, light_micrograph 2007 trigger a genuine frisson on queasy horror, as if viewing a corrupted body or the remains of a mass grave”
- J. Cahill, Damien Hirst: Retrospective, London, 2007, p. 39