Dissection kit

When I started studying biomedicine, we were asked to buy a dissection kit for the first year of the degree. I never ended up using it! It spent years forgotten in a drawer in my bedside table, until I took it out today. Not for dissection, but for drawing. My path as a biomedical scientist took an unexpected turn and I ended up becoming a scientific illustrator, at least for now. And here is the graphic representation of that decision: the kit I never used for my biomedical training is now part of my bodegon. Although I never got to use the kit, the illustrations I create today maintain the precision required for a dissection: from the sketch to the finished illustration, every line, every detail, every shadow has a purpose. Everything I learned in college is still valuable, and in some ways, it has influenced my current approach, but as with this kit, I have found a new way to put that knowledge to use. Now I look at the world through the eyes of a scientific illustrator, with the same meticulousness required for a dissection, and I hope to continue exploring this path for a long time to come.