This is Graham, a human sculpture who has evolved from being able to survive car crashes. (Photo : Twitter/Kaitlyn Tiffany)
A human sculpture called Graham has been created by artist Patricia Piccinini to depict what a person would look like if his traits had evolved into making him survive lethal car crashes.
The anatomy of the human body as one can see it in the mirror now is the product and result of thousands of years of evolutionary adaptations from our ancestors. The length of our arms and the clearness of our eyesight all have been a result of the evolutionary changes that homo sapiens have changed by themselves through natural selection.
Graham is a life-size sculpture of a human being if it had evolved from being able to survive car crashes. The humanoid is entirely made of silicone, fiberglass, resin, and human hair.
Piccinini said that its primary purpose is to evoke conversation about the incredible dangers of car crashes, which kill people every day, CNN quoted her saying. Its objective is to depict the difference between our bodies, which are very vulnerable to death when it comes to car accidents, and the body of Graham, which is significantly different from ours.
Graham's evolutionary differences include a very thick skull for brain protection, which is one of the most vulnerable parts of our body, the joints of the knees being able to bend and twist around in any direction, and a rib cage that act like sacks of airbags instead of acting like a protective armor.
In order to be able to survive car collisions, the human body will have to be altered tremendously, as if the insides were like cushion, according to Live Science. The artist behind the sculpture stated that the response she wanted was more of eliciting conversations than reacting emotionally.
To be able to complete this, Piccinini worked with and interviewed trauma and collision experts and victims alike to be able to paint Graham's picture altogether. Graham is certainly a sight to behold, currently on display in Victoria, Australia, as it plans to travel around the country.
You can inspect and analyze Graham's anatomy, internal organs, and body structure here on the website of Meet Graham.
