Subtle Technologies: Using MRI and drawing as maps to heal my frozen shoulder

2012

Jack Butler gave a personal account of mapping his own embodied experience and visual data produced by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).  The pain he experienced as a result of his frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis - a disabling condition restricting shoulder movement) and the images produced by the MRI hightlights the limitations of this technology. Through his drawings, Jack attempts to connect his own mapping of these embodied experiences with the, seemingly reductive, images by the MRI.
In doing so, he ask how these images - MRI and drawings - could overlap to produce visual art at the service of healing.