Spine is a surrealist drawing and analog collage of a starfish with a human eye by North Carolina artist Natalie Schorr.

© Natalie Schorr, 2026

Collage of drawings, colored pencil, marker, ink on Twinrocker handmade paper
Framed: 19” x 26”

Sources for select collage elements:

Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery
J.M. Bourgery and N.H. Jacob, 1831
Modern reprint

About this piece: As a child, I was told not to stare at people. I might make them uncomfortable. The suggestion was that good girls spent time looking at their laps, hands folded, but I couldn’t help being drawn to the unfamiliar, the novel face, the curiously contorted bodies that seemed more common in my childhood experience.