| Description | One print of an ipad illustration, titled, 'The 1900 Typhoid Vaccine Trial at the Richmond Asylum, 2024'. Signed on the verso by Fidelma Slattery.
Slattery's description 'For this illustration I decided to focus on antibodies to help convey the situation these women found themselves in. Strong ‘y’ shapes are used throughout to echo antibodies. They appear as trees or roofs or the space between roofs. The half circle at the bottom, filled with antibodies and antigens, is there to represent the precipitation curve but it is also there to convey the earth turning, time passing, events transpiring that were unstoppable and in which the women were powerless. Inside the earth, the antibodies and antigens double as the roots of the trees so that the women are surrounded above and below. The light of the moon watches over them on their journey. Leaves are falling; it was autumn when they began getting sick and were given typhoid vaccinations. The three faceless women represent all 511 women who were vaccinated, invisible to the outside world.' |