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Typhoidland

Project type

Short comic

Date

2024

Location

Dublin, Ireland

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Follow Salmonella typhi submarines on their odyssey, from the waters of Dublin bay, into a human 'ark', the passageways within, and right back out again, all in the style of an early Jules Verne science fiction story for the Typhoidland exhibition.

Captains log: after generations of journeying through these vast waters, we encountered an ark and navigated passage within. Wood engraving style illustration of lots of tiny submarines swimming towards the open mouth of a swimmer in dublin bay.

Captains log: after generations of journeying through these vast waters, we encountered an ark and navigated passage within. Wood engraving style illustration of lots of tiny submarines swimming towards the open mouth of a swimmer in dublin bay.

We braved extreme turbulence, with the walls pressing in and an entire ocean of acid, before emerging into a cavern - unending and thronging with life. The fleet of submarines sails over shipyards of other microbes along a huge long tunnel.

We braved extreme turbulence, with the walls pressing in and an entire ocean of acid, before emerging into a cavern - unending and thronging with life. The fleet of submarines sails over shipyards of other microbes along a huge long tunnel.

The cavernous metropolis was mired in thick sludge, beneath which waved a forest of limbless trees. We motored through the sludge down to a meadowlike clearing - from there we broke into the ark's undercity. Salmonella submarines break through the sludge at the top, past the anchors of other microbes that attach to the intestinal cells, towards a clearing on the cell surface. Through the gloom, the headlights reveal submarines being caught in cell protrusions, dragging them down, but we also see submarines drilling down to get access to the same place, the undercity.

The cavernous metropolis was mired in thick sludge, beneath which waved a forest of limbless trees. We motored through the sludge down to a meadowlike clearing - from there we broke into the ark's undercity. Salmonella submarines break through the sludge at the top, past the anchors of other microbes that attach to the intestinal cells, towards a clearing on the cell surface. Through the gloom, the headlights reveal submarines being caught in cell protrusions, dragging them down, but we also see submarines drilling down to get access to the same place, the undercity.

The undercity proved ideal to rebuild and refashion our fleet. Our toxins kept the arks patrol vessels at bay. Salmonella submarines are grouped in the centre, lashed together like a makeshift dockyard, painted in dazzle camouflage, spitting out tiny landmines which keep the patrolling white blood cells away. The hills of the intestines form the horizon.

The undercity proved ideal to rebuild and refashion our fleet. Our toxins kept the arks patrol vessels at bay. Salmonella submarines are grouped in the centre, lashed together like a makeshift dockyard, painted in dazzle camouflage, spitting out tiny landmines which keep the patrolling white blood cells away. The hills of the intestines form the horizon.

For generations we explored the endless networks of red and cream passageways. We came to know where they would lead us. Signposted passageways lead to different parts of the body (gall bladder, spleen, lymph nodes) from the cockpit of the control panel of one of the Salmonella typhi submarines.

For generations we explored the endless networks of red and cream passageways. We came to know where they would lead us. Signposted passageways lead to different parts of the body (gall bladder, spleen, lymph nodes) from the cockpit of the control panel of one of the Salmonella typhi submarines.

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