© 2022 Pulse - Voices from the Heart of Medicine, Inc. All rights reserved.
COVID Remapped
- By Megan Gerber
- December 23, 2022
- visuals
- 5 Comments
About the Artwork
“Throughout the COVID pandemic, we have been presented with many maps: maps of prevalence, test positivity, hospitalizations, wastewater content and deaths. These maps’ often bright colors belie their true geography–that of pain and suffering. What if we could map hope, kindness and places where recovery and healing occur? Those constructs would be harder to precisely identify and trace; this abstract painting (acrylic ink and pigment on wood board) is a representation (or map) of them.”
Megan Gerber is a general internist on the faculty of Albany Medical College in New York. Her clinical and academic work focuses on improving both health outcomes and the healthcare experience for persons who have experienced trauma. For the last several years, she has developed ways to integrate narrative medicine into this work. Her abstract paintings and mixed-media pieces focus on expression of “emotional landscape”; her visual and written work has appeared in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Intima and Closler.org. She is the editor of Trauma-informed Healthcare Approaches: A Guide for Primary Care (Springer, 2019).
Comments
More Visuals
Community
Johanna Siegmann January 20, 2023
Two Bodies
Isabella Calisi-Wagner January 6, 2023
COVID Remapped
Megan Gerber December 23, 2022
Ultimate Concern
Buddy Marterre December 9, 2022
A Child by Any Other Name Would Be as Loved
Lisa Sieczkowski November 25, 2022
The Toll of It All
Brian R. Smith November 11, 2022
The Domino Players
Richard Heley October 28, 2022
Valiant
Tim Roberts October 14, 2022
Intuitive Eating
Florence J. Yip September 30, 2022
5 thoughts on “COVID Remapped”
Incredibly evocative and powerful. Love this!
Wonderful painting! So nice to see your and Bill’s creative work on pulse!
Hi Karen! Thanks so much, Megan
This is a wonderful painting and I love the sentiment my t and creative energy fueling its creation. Thanks for sharing
Thanks so much I truly appreciate this feedback! Best Megan