Coming to know: an artist investigates/draws her own unusual anatomy


for Ted Meyer, Art and Medicine talk at USC Keck School of Medicine
10 drawings + 2 medical images that were anatomical references for the drawings

visible skeleton (2000 - 2004)

Crouching figure with visible skeleton

Twisting figure with red hand [large detail]

Profile couple with visible skeleton

Reclining figure with visible skeleton

Bending figure with visible skeleton

visible spinal cord/nerves (2011 - 2020)

Spinal cord (cauda equina) with nerve roots  [large detail]

Vertebrae from above, red-brown (with spinal canal)

Turning vertebrae with spinal nerves (red)

Spinal cord scroll [detail]

His hands on my ribcage, with spinal cord & nerves

medical images made for art

x-ray, with earrings and necklace

3D spiral CT scan