Beauty of Form and Function
Copyright 2008
A formative experience arose in my second year during our introductory anatomy course by Professor Philip Tobias. We were obliged to take the Hippocratic oath before being allowed into the dissection halls. This introduction to anatomy was, therefore, one of our first entries as privileged people into the worlds and bodies of others, teaching us to maintain respectfulness and humility. Professor Tobias explained that we were going to spend a very intense year among the odors of formalin, delving into the secret innards of dead people, and that the body in the end would be a mere remnant of the former person. The muscles and nerves would be exposed, the organs removed, and the face, the former mark and feature of a unique individual, would lose its identity. This experience inspired me to realize that biology, anatomy, medicine, health, disease, and life itself is an integrated experience. Learning the one was not possible in isolation. In fact I learned that nothing is, exists, happens in isolation.
In order to instill a perspective of the eventual purpose to this seemingly destructive method of learning, Professor Tobias invited a duet of professional classical ballet dancers and a pair of black belt karate experts into the lecture room. He wanted them to display the beauty and form that pieces of muscle, nerve and gut can actually accomplish in their prime of health, when structure and function are in perfect harmony. To this he added the element of a creative soul that drove these four people to their expressive peaks.

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The Normal Heart and Coronary Arteries
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The collage takes us from the proton (top left) through to element and molecule and finally to strands of DNA in the first row. The second row starts with a group of cells advances to the tissues, to the organ which in this case is the liver.
The third row represents units2unity from the organ (liver with its connections (arteries and veins to body systems and the body.
The fourth row advances from the body to the person, couple family home community.
The last row is the village advancing to the city, state country earth and solar system.
Note the similarity between the proton and the earth, and between the atom and solar system.
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Alveoli of the Lung – Factory Workers


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A close-up view if the resilient tiger lily in orange glory. Two delicate threads of a spider web sit delicately between the petal and a bud. 02120p Davidoff photography |
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The Breasts
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The Breasts – Functional Beauty
Skin Deep
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Macrophage many Arms of the Law
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Mountain Farms in Peru
How do they Change the Form of the Mountain to CAtch the Water and Create a Farm in the Mountains?
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Black Bird at the Commons
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The tree has a root system below and a branching system above. The nature of the tree and biology is to be gifted a brief period to enable us to borrow from the earth, and to evolve the raw products toward the heavens. (Davidoff art)45828b12.800 |
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A Tube Blowing off Steam
Chimney from the Underground
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Welcome to the Home of My Seed
Please Feel Free to Partake and Distribute
Cosmos
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Beyond the Flowers – Not so still life 82715p Davidoff art
Shopping At the SuperMarket- Bags of Food to Take Home
Plastic or Paper? No Thanks Just Dump Em on My Legs
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I Might Look Pretty – But I am MAde For Work not For Comfort
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Reap Transport Store
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Selling Souvenirs in Peru
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Finding The Centre of Gravity
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The Red Onion
Storing the Carbohydrates in Layers of Tight Shelves
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The Liver
Clockwork purple – 24/7
A Model of Efficiency – And Quite Beautiful Too
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Strings of the Heart
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Brooklyn Suspension Bridge Upside Down
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Strings of the Heart From Above
The most beautiful feature of the LA (in my opinion of course) is its view of the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve through the annulus. To see the chordae and the sail of the anterior leaflet biphasically flap-flapping must be a sight to behold. Courtesy of Ashley Davidoff M.D. code cardiac heart normal MV mitral valve anatomy 32106
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Cauda Equina
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Phone Line Toys of Line Wire Rays of Sun
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Cells Clustered Around the Transport System
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Another tree of Functional Efficiency
The Splenic Artery
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A Transport System
The Biliary Tree
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The Spine
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Breast -A Gland with an Arborizing Pattern of Efficiency
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