Maya Lakshmi Srinivasan is a general surgery resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. Between her 2nd and 3rd years of clinical surgical training, she is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI.
Working largely in woodblock relief, intaglio, and handmade papermaking techniques, she hopes to uncover the parallel dialogues in surgery and printmaking—between positive and negative space, traditional and modern tools, patient and surgeon.
She believes surgery and printmaking undeniably parallel one another, each revealing the potential to create within the space of destruction, each practice intimately informing the other. Her artwork aims to reconcile the perceived monotony of the surgeon’s life, the moral discomfort of learning on unknowing bodies as a surgical resident, and the neglected impact of surgery on the patient.
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