Cindy Stelmackowich is an Ottawa-based visual artist and academic with a particular interest in medical science. The picture on the cover, “handbook of SURGERY” (cover photo by David Barbour), is part of an ongoing series wherein medical books—textbooks, dictionaries, anatomical manuals, first aid primers—are made subject to Stelmackowich’s own incisive explorations. In these works, medical science’s bodies of knowledge become an important source of her work, not only conceptually but more directly as the material through the work is made. Stelmackowich has exhibited her artwork across Canada and has received numerous grants and fellowships. Currently she lectures at Carleton University where she is completing a PhD in the history and theory of anatomical illustration. For more information about her artwork visit www.patrickmikhailgallery.com.