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Inner beauty

Updated on 10 February 2006

By Tom Clarke

Channel4 News looks at a work that considers the inner workings of the body as a piece of art.


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For most of us, the content of our stomach is something we'd rather not think about - let alone look at.

But for the artist Phillip Warnell, connecting our insides and our outsides is an important mission.

To that end, this afternoon he swallowed a pill-sized camera to record a video journey through nine metres of his gastro-intestinal tract.

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