A shack, a baby, a bar
This baby curiously peers over the counter but is met with a line of bottles. The colors amongst the bottles, the décor of this humble shack along a highway, and the baby’s clothes litter the image with various colors, yet they are all tied...
Specification: 5"x8" watercolor on paper
I painted this after asking myself, "What would it look like to catch a fish that could feed you for a lifetime?"
2 photos from recent trips to places I’ve never been before.
Untitled #6
I took this photo while on a roadtrip with Ben and Ashwin along the eastern coast of Newfoundland, Canada. We decided to visit the Brimstone Head, a giant rock right on the edge of the province. The Flat...
Medical illustrations in many of our textbooks and lectures often lack depictions of black and brown patients. Inspired by Chidiebere Ibe, who was a medical student at Kyiv Medical University in Ukraine at the time and who originally called attention to this phenomenon, I decided to create an anatomic...
I had just taken Step 1 and was back home in Vancouver, Canada. After a month of studying, it was time for a break. It had snowed heavily the night before, and I decided to make something I hadn’t made since middle school—a snow sculpture. It took the whole...
By Zonia Moore
This is a painting that captures the spirit of black power and black freedom at a time where the political climate is once again trying to whitewash history and the face of the USA. The idea of reparations to white people for the "harms they experienced under...
This piece is titled "Subway," 12"x12", watercolor, and gouache on paper. I made this piece right before college, which I'd be moving to New York City for. I had a lot of anxiety about how overwhelming it might be, so I wanted to make something that depicted traveling around...
TW: Gun violence, war
I will never forget the chills down my spine when listening to a mother’s newfound promise to take better care of her children. She had been wrongfully incarcerated due to gun violence that she was actually the victim of. Her children were not sleeping at night,...
Song Title: Spirits
Credits: Arnab Dey (Writing, Production, Vocals, Mixing/Mastering)
Lyrics:
I tell 'em it was back in the dayWhen I used to rap, I had to be paidFlow was immaculate, it was factory madeThis is no act, even though they clapped at my playAnd the fact that I'm back on this...
This is a five-panel comic inspired by David Beauchard’s graphic novel Epileptic (pp.11 and 53). I imitated Beauchard’s graphic style and told a new story. The fictional narrator recounts her grandmother’s death, her family’s concealment of the bad news from her grandfather, and her questions around grief, love, and...
The human body is an enigma! Especially so for the first-year medical student during Anatomy. Anatomy can be overwhelming; I wanted to brighten the somewhat hellish rite of passage that all medical students must go through with a little bit of humor. It’s okay to be wrong! Misidentifying organs...
The piece I drew centers around the idea of hospitals as a key support in the fabric of our society. I wanted to convey this idea in a visual metaphor of balance. In this piece, a community with its many distinct functions (agriculture, commerce, industry, government) is balanced upon...
Mach-Hommy, a Haitian producer and hip-hop artist, remains to be one of the scenes most elusive contributors. Mach-Hommy released his album, Haitian Body Odor (HBO), as the first album part of his tetralogy through record sales at 300 USD a piece. The album features numerous sly underpinnings and double...
Artist Statement:
This is a paint-by-numbers piece that I completed over the summer. As I completed this piece, it was an opportunity for me to unwind and reflect upon the first year of medical school. In particular, I was struck by the beauty of the cherry blossoms. It is my...
This bouquet is a collection of sixty hand-crocheted flowers. Each petal and leaf was crafted individually to form a lasting arrangement. Like pieces of a puzzle, every stitch contributes to the whole, creating a picture that is clear when complete yet elusive when studied too closely. The flowers are...
Similar to the previous work, the name of this piece also has both literal and figurative meaning. Slice of Life takes place in Schuylkill River Park from the perspective of the person sitting on the rightmost bench of Panorama of Life. As I assume the position of this man,...
This drawing was inspired by my many visits to the Schuylkill River Park over this last summer. The scene depicts the various activities of people who frequent the park, such as a father playing with his son and their dog, a man playing guitar on the bench, and a...
This is a digital painting I made using Procreate which depicts the hands of some of the donors who gifted their bodies to our anatomy course. Over the past few months, I’ve had the chance to TA for anatomy. This experience has led me to reflect on my time...
Dumpling making is such an intimate and unique process, one that embraces the delicate balance between precision and flaw. No pinch, fold, or cradle is the same as the last. Pinch too hard the edges become too thin and break, but pinch too softly, the filling leaks out during...
I tried to create a graphic illustrating the mental space of pursuing a career in health. We feel responsible for a system that we didn't create, we witness our patients suffering deeply, and we see the rifts in health created by socioeconomic issues that are beyond our control. We...
This image is a 3D model of a T cell receptor (TCR) bound to a MART-1 peptide-MHC complex, which is found on melanoma cells. The exact amino acid sequence of the TCR was determined by immunoscreening of a patient enrolled in a neoadjuvant checkpoint blockade trial at Penn. The...
Every day I cross the South Street Bridge on my way to and from school. It has become routine, a mindless activity. But sometimes when I have too many thoughts buzzing in my mind, I take a break from my routine and pause on the edge of that bridge....
So much of starting medical school is about finding a rhythm — a morning run, a bowl of oats, a walk to class, a stream of lectures, and an early bedtime — and sticking with it, day after day. At home, family and friends asked variations of “how’s medical...
Inspired by Vinay Krishnan’s poem “there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop”, this piece attempts to depict the absurdity of mundane life for an American medical student as a US-funded genocide is actively occurring on the other side of the world. Medical students are taught to value...
Wounded Child, No Surviving Family, 2024, digital.
Wounded Child, No Surviving Family is a phrase that has come to be used by healthcare workers in Gaza to identify thousands of hospitalized children in the months since the airstrikes began. The burden on healthcare providers in Gaza has been exceedingly dire...
Clerkship Year is our first step into the reality of healthcare. We start as wanna-be shadowers and quickly progress to frontline providers. Patients begin to see us as doctors, the doctors begin to see us as their peers, and eventually we begin to see ourselves that way too. We...
This is a digitally-altered Chinese ink painting of a cerebral angiogram. Huang is interested in Chinese approaches to painting, which emphasize the portrayal of motion and vitality through brush strokes instead of the realistic representation of a subject. While learning about angiograms in anatomy class, and she was fascinated...
Title of piece: Medical School Sketches
I can only speak for the first two months, but my favorite part of medical school has been the clinical encounters. During most of the clinical encounters and plenaries, I like to sketch a quick portrait of the speakers. “Medical School Sketches” is a...