The summer expedition to Truro for the Association of Medical Humanities conference is taking shape: our paper has been accepted, and the booking form (& cheque) have been sent. I’ve booked the accommodation and inspected the available rail fares…could be expensive. Anyway, it looks as though it will all actually be happening, and my computer keyboard is running red-hot at the moment. But no life model yet.
Still no success in finding a model for life classes in the Medical School….. in fact, I’ve had no success in contacting people who might be able to tell me where to find said life model.
If any of those I’ve contacted are reading this blog to check up on me: I really am genuinely & honestly an artist, and I really am looking for a life model for legitimate purposes.
As may be guessed by the long interval between posts, I have had other things on my mind lately, but suddenly the long-anticipated but not really expected deadlines are unnervingly very close at hand.
Next week we have the “workshop” for tutors in Medical Humanities, then the course itself starts…and I still haven’t managed to find a life model in the area.
On a more reassuring note, several students have expressed an interest in the modules – so here’s hoping that we will actually have something to talk about at the Association for Medical Humanities conference in the summer.
And the “Lines & Strata II” exhibition (including my drawing “Homage”) has opened in Denbigh.
http://linesandstrata.wordpress.com/lines-strata-2…
Pretty quiet on the Anatomy & Drawing front over the last month. I have not been to life classes since before Christmas and am unlikely to get to any until the weather improves. This is due to a combination of a very dead car, over a foot of snow and the lack of public transport home after 6.15p.m. The bus service is great during the day, but there’s nothing from the nearest town to my village at night.
I have had an email today with the abstract for the meeting in Truro – I do appreciate someone else writing it for me! As there are three of us involved in the presentation it shouldn’t be too stressful.
My only recent anatomical experience has been discussing the position (“relations” in the jargon) of the Plantaris muscle with relations/relatives, one of whom may have ruptured said muscle. I’m not sure I remember anything about it. My ancient copy of Gray’s Anatomy describes it as “sometimes double and at other times wanting…(it) is the rudiment of a large muscle, the tendon of which in some of the lower animals is inserted into the plantar aponeurosis (bottom of the foot): in man it is an accessory to the Gastrocnemius..”. The accompanying illustration looks like one of the originals by Henry Carter. I’m waiting to hear from the publishers whether I can post a copy of the illustration (from the 1935 edition, but presumably still under copyright).
Some good news about the project, even though the SSCs haven’t actually started yet (so we don’t know if anyone will choose them): we have been asked to attend a conference in Truro.
“CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN SURGERY, PATHOLOGY, THE HUMANITIES & THE ARTS – relationships between surgery, surgical culture and the arts and humanities, or the wider theme of the ‘pathological’ and the ‘normal’ at the levels of biological systems, culture (and history), societal organization and networks, or the interpersonal and intrapersonal. “
This promises to be interesting, and also Fun as I worked in Cornwall in the 1970s. Mind you, those were the days when the county closed for the winter at the end of October, and didn’t open up again until Easter. I don’t suppose it’s like that now.
Drawing, painting, printmaking, wandering, wondering.
