Baby Pictures

It's not really contemporary art, but I find it interesting/creepy/fascinating. Forget about bronzing baby shoes, it's now possible to have a bronze sculpture of a baby in the womb (the opposite of a death mask, I guess).

The image above is the output from a 3D printer (see earlier posting on this) from which the bronze would be cast.

A 3D printer uses ultrasound images to build a cast of the child. The models cost £1,200, take up to two-and-a-half weeks to make, and are created when the mother is at a safe stage of pregnancy at 24 weeks.

Doctors say the technology could also help improve survival rates for sick babies.

Accurate casts of birth defects could be taken in the womb then studied by surgeons before they operate.

[Print your baby via Make]