Sculptor Ellie Scheepens reproduced a human head with attention to comparison and touch as part of a series of work Stranger than a Wolf. Artist Heather Spears directed the process and shares her thought process in this set of images.
A previous version of this article entitled Stranger than a wolf was published on the Wellcome Library blog in 2015.
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Lalita Kaplish
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Lalita is a digital content editor at Wellcome Collection with particular interests in the history of science and medicine and discovering hidden stories in our collections.