Body Art

i have always loved examining things close up. when i was a little kid i carried around a book titled "Patterns in Nature" and spent hours paging through images of tree bark, pebbles, veins of leaves, and sea shells. i was fascinated by the idea that, when looked at from different angles or magnifications, vastly different things could look so similar to one another. and that ordinary things could be so beautiful. these thoughts were re-stimulated in my histology class, looking at magnified images of different body parts, comparing their cellular structures. here is a smattering of what i have been studying. the slices of tissue have been stained with the different colors so that the cells can be seen more clearly.

esophagus

tendon

fat

hair follicle

heart muscle

bone

bone (closer up)

liver

lung

fallopian tube

nerve cell bodies

nerve cell axons

skeletal muscle 

skin

small intestine

cartilage