A collaboration between artist Emily Fong and scientist Dr Elaine Emmerson from the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) in partnership with ASCUS Art and Science, healthcare professionals and patient partners. Welcome to G-Lands; the landscape inside and surrounding the salivary gland. Despite being a lifesaving treatment for head and neck cancer patients, a side-effect of radiotherapy is damage to salivary glands, leading to the chronic condition of dry mouth. This can severely affect a patient’s quality of life, with existing treatments focusing on short-term relief of side-effects. Dr Elaine Emmerson’s research aims to develop a regenerative strategy to restore salivary gland function. Whilst viewing a salivary gland in the Emmerson Lab at CRM, Emily Fong raised questions about the patient living without it. How incredible it is that a surgeon, scientist, artist or member of the public can engage with someone else’s body part. During her residency at CRM, Emily Fong observed the journey taken by the salivary gland, from the time it is removed from the patient through to research taking place in the Emmerson Lab; meeting with patients, surgeons, oncologists, pathologists and scientists, capturing different perspectives and interactions with the organ. To enable them to ask important questions, Emily and Elaine wish to formally introduce you to the salivary gland. During Pharaonic times, Osiris was the Egyptian god of the afterlife, inundation and re-birth. On this journey they haven’t mapped the flooding of the Nile but the Emmerson Lab at CRM certainly aims to re-flood the mouth, returning salivary gland function to the many glands living in drought. And so, they have conjured Osiris, their protagonist, the salivary gland, who lives in the G-Lands, located everywhere and nowhere all at once.