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Science ArtEdition 2, Spring 2023

My Body Is Art

Watercolor portraits of stem cells, neurons, liver, bone and blood cells float across a black page, a full-bleed collage celebrating the trillions of tiny units that make up a human body.

Rhiannon Stevens

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Edition 2, Spring 2023
Pages
15
Licence
CC BY 4.0
A black page scattered with circular watercolor illustrations of human cells (red blood cells, a blue neuron network, pink liver tissue, gray bone cells and an orange stem cell) behind the bold words MY BODY IS ART.

My Body Is Art, a collage of illustrated human cells by Rhiannon Stevens

My Body Is Art, a collage of illustrated human cells by Rhiannon Stevens

fig. 1 - Human stem cell / Stromal cells (STROH-muh sel)

fig. 2 - Human brain cell / Neuron (nyour-ron)

fig. 3 - Human liver cells / Hepatocytes (heh-puh-tow-sites)

fig. 4 - Human bone cells / Osteocytes (aa-stee-oh-sites), Osteoblasts (aa-stee-oh-blasts), Osteoclasts (aa-stee-oh-klasts)

fig. 5 - Red and white human blood cells / Erythrocytes (ur-i-thruh-sites), Leukocyte (loo-kow-sites)

How to cite this article

Stevens, R. (2023). My Body Is Art. Columbia Scientist, 2, 15. https://columbiascientist.org/articles/my-body-is-art

© 2023 Rhiannon Stevens. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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