ok ok ok Iām so sorry but I HAVE to talk about this
thereās something so loving about what tom bjƶrklund does and just- fuck Iām foaming at the mouth here
facial reconstruction isnāt a new concept (see the Kennewick Man/Patrick Stewart incident) but itās difficult to find people that are truly good at it! genuinely there is a big gap in this field because there just arenāt a lot of people who do it professionally!
facial reconstruction, especially from bone or bone fragments, is such a fascinating intersection of art and science, and a tremendous amount of care is put into determining what these people might have looked like.
with that said, itās VERY easy to screw it up
configuring muscle attachments and fat distribution is genuinely *very* difficult to do, and when you do it badly, you get this (pictured above). by adding too much muscle, they gave this 600 year old man a VERY interesting jawline (notice that the bottom of the chin doesnāt match up with the bone at all!) and they *really* made him look older than he was. would you believe me if I said that he was estimated to only be 46 years old?
basically Iām just REALLY excited about Tom Bjƶrklundās art because itās amazing work, just from an anthropology perspective
facial reconstructions arenāt just an artsy thing that you can just say āoh, thatās cool!ā to
by giving these people faces, even if they arenāt always accurate, we open the doors for the average person to connect with the past at a very human level. sure, looking at bones is cool, but looking at art of someone that lived thousands of years ago is *incredible*
looking at a picture of a boy that lived thousands of years ago and thinking āyeah, he wouldāve loved Minecraftā is EXACTLY the reaction that these pieces are meant to elicit
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