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Health Enhanced by Art 2020 (HEArt Journal)

What Lies Beneath the Skin

Art Description

As a student learning anatomy, the overwhelming feeling of memorizing minute details of bones, muscles, nerves and blood vessels can obscure the beauty of a functioning human body. When I think of what lies beneath the skin, when I feel what lies beneath the skin, I visualize a whole intertwined network of vessels.  Putting imagery to these systems and comparing them to the real world allows me to recognize the importance of individual segments and their contribution to the overall body in homeostasis. My focus here was to highlight the vasculature and lymphatic system working together even though they are separate entities.

Artist Statement

Artist: Shivani Kamal, SOMA

Shivani Kamal is a third-year osteopathic medical student at ATSOMA, originally from San Francisco. She views human health in a holistic manner and appreciates how the complexity of human anatomy can be art itself. Shivani’s goal is to maintain this mindset with every patient encounter and always be open to how connected things are.