I think I'm going to start an art project...

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?

Heart

Dan: You think love is simple. You think the heart is like a diagram.
Larry: Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist, wrapped in blood!

-Closer


I have a fascination with the heart. It is a tremendously powerful little piece of equipment - Have you ever thought about this? I've never seen a real human heart (one day hopefully if I attend medical school), but I have done dissections of other animals' hearts. Sheep is surprisingly similar in size. When you strip it down and remove it from the body it keeps alive, it's actually jaw-dropping to understand its capabilities. I don't know whether this is sensible, and I know that the heart and its rate is closely monitored and regulated, relying on numerous variables to keep me alive; but beyond that, it really sees simple. I guess I wanted to write a quick blurb about this just to raise awareness in others about the brilliant machines that are our bodies. Take care of it. Love it. We put our hearts on pedestals when we think about love and romance, but where did this even start? What is the association? In reality, shouldn't we start drawing cute doodles of brains around the name of our crushes? The heart deserves recognition, without a doubt, but let's give it the right kind.