Tag: Winter 2012
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Blood at Borodino
George DuneaChicago, Illinois, United States The year 2012 marks the 200th anniversary of Borodino, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of mankind. It pitted against each other two roughly matched adversaries, the armies of emperor Napoleon and Czar Alexander I, each boasting about 130,000 men and 600 guns. Having marched all the way…
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Stomach acid dream
Mia BrownellNew Haven, USA My work is a meditation on the genetic makeup of food, inviting the viewer to celebrate life in its most fundamental state. By intertwining clusters of ripe fruit in meandering structures suspended in space, I embrace a fusion of traditional still-life techniques and scientific models of proteins. The paintings express a…
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Viral combat: Monica fights the flu
Clare RoseanUniversity of Chicago, Illinois, USA To anyone who has ever been sick in bed with the flu, Viral Combat: Monica Fights the Flu will offer a quirky visual account of why it is so utterly miserable to be sick. Created with the intention of educating students between grades 7–10, the story personifies viral particles,…
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Gentle men
Alan BlumAlabama, Tuscaloosa, USA As a medical student at Emory, I began adding sketches and snippets of dialogue to my charts as a way to spend more time with each patient, to focus more closely on the patient’s expression, and to try to capture the essence of our encounter. I do not use the term…
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The surgeon
John Graham-PoleAntigonish, Canada Eli had once overheard an ENT nurse describe the sound of his artificial voice box voice as a cross between that of a toad and a crow—a voice any woman would hang up on fast. But right now a frail caw-croak is all he can summon. Jamming the phone’s receiver close to…