Last year, in the spring of 2025, I decided to do some repairs on some of my crooked teeth. At some point, during that long process that took months to be more or less finished, I had to pose for an X-ray snapshot of the set of teeth in my mouth.

(Enlargeable) The X-ray machine operator lady gave me a CD or DVD, can't remember which one exactly was of those two, with the X-ray image, so I could play a bit with it in Photoshop. I added a bit of color and twisted the image a bit to make it look like my skeleton is smiling for the camera. I also added a bit of meat ...

(Enlargeable) ... from this photograph I took in 2010 or 2011. That's a head of a lamb I bought in the butcher shop. I mean, I bought two separate pieces and assembled a head on the white paper. I needed it for a series of artworks depicting the extraterrestrial fauna of some distant planet. The following picture ...

(Enlargeable) ... shows one of those artworks.

(Enlargeable) Last night, while preparing this post, I decided to take this head and play a bit with its colors in Photoshop. That's how this collection of six images came to be.

(Enlargeable) In this lovely set of four photographs, you can see the fragment of a small asteroid that fell in my yard and changed my life forever. Just kidding. This is the dental filling from one of my teeth. It resembles a fairly interesting piece of rock when seen through the macro lens. The dental work I got done last year was of the cheapest and most basic kind, the kind of work that gets covered with the health insurance with no additional charges, so the filling didn't last long. It fell a few months later, giving me the oportunity to do a couple of not particularly interesting photographs. In the following set of four images ...

(Enlargeable) ... I used Photoshop to add a bit of color and make things more interesting.

(Enlargeable) Here you can see the original, unaltered X-ray of my mouth.

(Enlargeable) Yep, that's all. The post ends here. As always on Hive, the art and photographs are my work - **THE END.**

Chest x ray