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What am I looking at? is the story of a young
medical illustrator,
Megan, who is having serious doubts about her chosen profession.
The world of medical art is not the scientific community it once
was: aesthetics are valued over accuracy, imagination over
information. Megan’s peers seem more concerned with art than
anatomy, drawing organs from memory and adding interpretive
embellishes to spleen diagrams. But Megan is not content walking
the line between abstraction and representation—she needs
something concrete to grasp on to.
Possibility presents itself in the form of Randy, a middle-aged
cemetery grounds keeper. His tendency for the occasional grave
robbery gets Megan’s gears turning. Would it be so wrong to dig
up
a dead body in the name of science? Could it pull her profession
back on track? The realness of an exhumed corpse draws her. But
before Megan can dig like da Vinci, she’s got to convince Randy,
her peers, and her best friend Carlo—a sarcastic aesthete who
thinks she’s crazy. How far will Megan go to satisfy her desperate
yearning for objectivity?
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