forensic models based on murder victims

This is a really spooky set of images. The artist, Arne Svensen, has photographed little models that were built to recreate unidentified bodies. Because there is no sense of scale in the resulting photographs, the result is a collection with subjects that look like humans but a slight difference. There are little proportions, grimaces, gestures, and lines out of place. We can't quite identify the source of the disjuncture, but we know it's not quite "real" somehow. And yet, the figures are eerily familiar, so the anxiety felt by a viewer is replicated quite well in the somber faces of the subjects in the photos. And then, the questions begin. Did they identify the person? What happens to these models? Who makes these models? How do they know what a person looked like on the outside, based on the inside? These are questions which the subjects in the photographs cannot answer, but they seem to agree that the whole thing is just a bit morose, a bit suspicious, and altogether the result is a spectacular assortment of images that point to our own mortality and our own limits as humans.