On the cover:
"Faces #1" by David Bovill, MD, is an aluminum stylet sculpture. This collection of faces is a hanging mobile and part of a series of sculptures created using anesthetic endotrachial tube stylets and industrial silicone glue. Dr Bovill says that each of his sculptures represents a patient or colleague.

Dr Bovill is an orthopaedic surgeon at the Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento facility. He is involved with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery traveling art show: Emotion Pictures (http://emotion.aaos.org/). His orthopaedic surgeon father and artist mother provide his inspiration. Dr Bovill has worked in many media, including watercolors and oils. Currently, he prefers creating sculptures using discarded anesthetic endotracheal tube stylets, bending them into two- and three-dimensional faces. He says these sculptures: "... help me remember that I am treating people, not simply bones, joints, or x-rays."
E-mail: david.bovill@kp.org

More of Dr Bovill’s artwork can be seen in the Soul of the Healer section.

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Calling All Artists...
The Permanente Journal is always interested in considering artwork by Kaiser Permanente clinicians and employees. If you would like to submit art for consideration for the cover or interior of The Permanente Journal, please use the following guidelines:

Send us a high-quality color photograph of your art no smaller than 4x5 and no larger than 8x10. For cover art submission, portrait orientation is preferred. Please include a cover letter explaining Kaiser Permanente association, art background, medium and a brief statement about the artwork (description, inspiration, etc). Electronic and e-mail submissions are accepted, 600 dpi resolution is required.
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