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To say that this photographic project had some “grim origins” is kind of an understatement. 12:31 takes a fascinating but gruesome story involving the execution of murderer Joseph Paul Jernigan and uses it as source material for some ghostly looking light painted images. Jernigan’s murderous cadaver was frozen in gelatin and water, then cut into 1mm sections that resulted in 1,871 slices of human body. The 65 gigabyte data set of cross-sectional photographs will be used for scientific study as part of the National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human Project, but photographer Frank Schott and art director Croix Gagnon had different ideas for it...
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