Kit Parker; Professor of Bioengineering and Applied physics at Harvard University, unexpectedly noticed that jellyfish move similarly to how the human heart moves while pumping blood around the body. This chance realisation became the starting point for several current projects; artificial hearts inspired by jellyfish.

Parker began constructing miniature heart robots out of living heart cells from a rat. Though, at present it still very much a work in progress, his unexpected approach is suggestive of how future robotics will change the face of medicine and subsequently improve our wellbeing.

The images by Ruby Reid aim to explore the concept in an abstract fashion; utilising the colours of the blood when oxygenised. Reid seeks to combine textures, forms, and colours that draw on both jellyfish and human hearts. Most importantly they adopt the experimental and playful outlook that Parker approaches his projects with.