REFLECTIONS FROM THE LAB:
SUBCUTANEOUS CONNECTIVE TISSUE
“Aka Superficial Fascia. Aka Adipose. Aka Fat. Aka ‘Cushion For The Pushin’’. This beautiful Golden Fleece is kindly wrapped around each one of us -- to a greater or lesser degree -- and varies in thickness based on its location. Although this tissue is often maligned and insulted it serves MANY valuable functions. Our fatty layer is #highly #structured and innervated by many #nerves and #vessels. Our work on this tissue in the lab was to manually remove the lipids from its intricate fascial web. The results produced a cloud-like billowy layer of shockingly-strong connective tissue which, even after losing its density, maintained its depth.
“The superficial fascia is full of interoceptors, full of lymph, ... full of of value and is a deep part of our full, human experience. We are eager to plastinate this layer and include it in the current fascia-categorization conversation. We hope our efforts will also begin to bring more #compassion in the greater view of it as we expose the #beauty, #strength, and#value of this remarkable tissue.”
— FAUNA MOORE
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