Cathryn Ploehn, a master's student in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design, put her friends' hearts in her work.
For an assignment earlier this semester in the Experimental Capture (ExCap) course taught by Golan Levin and Nica Ross, she used a portable ultrasound to create portraits of 12 friends. By recording her friends' hearts from a consistent angle, synchronizing the recordings, and sorting their hearts by size, Ploehn was able to explore the beauty and diversity in human heart movements.