Picture credits:
Photographs of the floating colors process courtesy of Amy Tamayo; of Laura drawing in the Anatomy Lab courtesy of George Lew; bio photo of Laura by Ehud Azoulai
‘Neural network with floating colors #1’ is based on a photomicrograph from Paul De Koninck Laboratory in Québec, Canada, used with the kind permission of Paul de Koninck
‘Bone scaffolding (trabeculae)’ is based on photomicrographs by Dr. Alan Boyde of University College London, and used with his kind permission
Anatomical sources:
I was able to have the two 3D CT scans at NYULMC thanks to radiologist Dr. Andrew Litt and with the generous assistance of Emilio Vega, now Director of the 3D Imaging Lab, and Philip Berman (for the 2000 scan) and Michael Bloom (2008 scan), radiology imaging specialists. I have found their openness to and appreciation for the possibilities of artistic creativity in the medical setting to be truly remarkable, and I can’t thank them enough.
The same is true for the many others who have shared their knowledge and helped me along the way. At the NYU School of Medicine I especially appreciate Dr. Felice Aull, Professor of Medical Humanities and founder/editor of the Literature, Arts & Medicine Database and related Blog; Drs. Bruce Bogart, Victoria Ort, Mel Rosenfeld, Aveline Malyengo, and George Lew and other faculty and staff of the Anatomy Lab; and Annie Cofone, Joe Oppedisano, and Dr. Allen Keller of the Master Scholars Program.
For my recent brain scan with the cutting-edge 7 Tesla MRI, my thanks to Dr. Caitlin Hardy at NYU’s Center for Biomedical Imaging, for her great patience and encouragement and especially for her recognition of the visual beauty of these MRI images. More about the exhibit she is organizing, featuring the MRI images along with artworks they inspired, will be posted in News & Exhibitions.
At Weill Cornell Medical College, where I first got to draw in their Anatomy Lab from 2001 to 2005, my great thanks to Dr. Estomih Mtui, Charles Garrison, and Dr. Thomas Sculco.
And most especially:
For sharing, with total generosity, her deep and profound knowledge and insight, as well as her beautiful human skeleton and collection of bones, I thank my teacher, mentor, drawing partner and friend Irene Dowd ... a true artist of anatomy and the moving body.
For his help and advice in turning my words and pictures into a website – and for so infinitely much more – ultimate thanks to Leo Ferguson.
This list is very far from inclusive, and mostly acknowledges those whose help has been directly connected to this website and the visual images on it. But I feel so thankful to so many more … and have been struggling for days to find the right words to let them know how much their help and support and appreciation for my work has meant to me over the years. Ultimately, making art is a labor of love and a gift from the artist to the world, and I’m grateful to each person who is willing to accept the gift. I can only hope that my work itself expresses all this better than my words.…