Division
- By Sophia Zhao
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About the Artwork
This illustration depicts the multisensory, overwhelming feeling of confronting a loved one’s cancer diagnosis. “For me, this piece serves as a reminder that the illness experience can leap past the boundaries of just the ‘patient.’ “
Sophia Zhao is an artist and writer from Newark, DE. She recently graduated from Yale University, where she studied global health, the history of medicine, and molecular biophysics and biochemistry.
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2 thoughts on “Division”
Beautifully done. Such a good rendition of that feeling.
Beautiful illustration, very moving explanation.