Clockwise: small intestine with mesentery, haversian canals in transverse bone section, muscles and blood supply of the eye, ligaments of the foot.

Structures, threads, histological slides appear like holograms in the shapes of my everyday life; the actin-myosin filaments in a bracelet, the phagocytes in an Ikea bed-spread pattern. The art has already been created, we just need to be reminded sometimes that it is still there.

The nerve plexus’s seen in the anatomy suite became the bane of the medical student’s life before they can ever be appreciated for the amazing sculptures they are. We tend to miss the beauty because we are so caught up in the detail.

In this year when we have been trying to escape the scientific chains of medicine it seems appropriate to go back to raw physiology and find the art in its most basic sense.