[2] Kamen's artwork is influenced and inspired by scientific work in many areas, from medieval alchemical manuscripts to the periodic table, to theories of black holes.

She chose to study art education at Pennsylvania State University in part because it did not require classes in math, a subject that is often difficult for dyslexic people.

[1] Creating artwork enabled Kamen to use haptic skills, engaging her sense of touch to perceive and remember objects.

Kamen believes that artists and scientists have similar missions, searching for meaningful patterns and attempting to create compelling narratives about invisible worlds.

In Plato's work Timaeus (c. 350 BCE), the five forms of matter are related to elemental solids and shapes (the cube, the octahedron, the -tetrahedron, the icosahedron, and the dodecahedron).

In Kamen's work these regular polyhedra, created from fiberglass rods and sheets of mylar, are held against the larger plane of the wall, demonstrating "tension and compression".

[15] The work appeared in 2011 as part of the exhibit Elemental Matters: Artists Imagine Chemistry, at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA.

It was accompanied by a sound component by bio-musician Susan Alexjander, Elements in Descending Order of Creation from Collapsing Stars.

[16] In 2012, Kamen was awarded a fellowship from the National Institutes of Health, and spent a summer visiting and talking to scientists in their laboratories in Bethesda, Maryland.

[2] Kamen's work, Butterflies of the Soul was inspired by neuroscientist Santiago Ramon y Cajal, who won the 1906 Nobel Prize, for his examination of the human nervous system.

Kamen's sculpture is inspired by Cajal's drawings of Purkinje cells, which are involved in motor control and cognitive functions.

[20] In the 2021 multi–media exhibition Creative Resilience: Art by Women in Science, produced by the Gender Section of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Kamen's artwork "Corona and Illumination", an acrylic painting inspired by colorized SARS-CoV-2 electron microscopic images, and biographical information were featured along artworks by more than 50 other women from around the globe working in science and art.