Looking Outwards-07- Section A

I was inspired by a piece by Stefanie Posavec that was made for the Papworth Hospital Inpateints Ward. Specifically, I thought the her “Flows” piece was super pretty. I liked the piece because of how she connected the hospital’s specialty on that floor (relating to blood and vessel) to a calming element found in nature. Not only did she include all these connections behind why she chose the design she did, I was inspired by how the piece was designed to calm patients who had just come out of surgery. I think this is really important because hospitals can be a scary place and it’s cool how she was able to create something really nice from data. I admire these aspects because art has the ability to make places seem less scary and help people though the tough time they are going through.

To generate this work, Posavec used data points from echocardiograms. The, she probably drew many curves connecting the point but had the height of the curves fluxuate a little bit (maybe using something similar to noise) so that it seemed like the lines were flowy.

Stefanie Posavec, Papworth Hospital Inpatients Ward, 2019

Here is the link and here is the image: