There was a time when I wanted to be an art teacher. I think I was somewhere around ten years old and I thought it would be just so neat to be able to "play" all day and make cool things. I would certainly call myself a creative person now, however I do feel like a large portion of my ability to think outside the box has been lost due to the past 5 years of studying science. Yes, it's true that scientific thought itself requires a willingness to think abstractly, but it is necessary in a way that challenges ideas and provokes new research on a subject. My fellow RA staff members would also not hesitate to say that I come up with amazing ideas and take things overboard sometimes with the arts and crafts aspect of our job, but I am critical of my work and I am starting to have a burning desire to broaden my artistic horizons.
There has been some art pieces I have seen (paintings and sculptures mainly) that have been of the human body and form, or an abstract representation of it. With an immense fascination with the workings of the human body (hey med schools! pick me!) I am drawn immediately to this sort of artwork. I have even spent some time talking to medical students who have advocated the studying technique of drawing diagrams to help remember anatomy and physiology. In a non-academic sense, I'd like to start a project like this. I used to fill up sketch books as a child, drawing anything in sight, and perhaps I can harness that motivation again to do something cool as an adult. I'm going to take some time to find some images of bones, a heart, maybe muscle and see what I can reproduce on paper with a pencil in hand. A girl needs artwork for her future apartment eventually right? Why not make it myself?
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