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Size - 12” x 12” inch
Mixed Media
A faceless physician holds an endoscope, an instrument associated with the artist’s own medical specialty. Constructed from music, maps, patterned papers, and painted fragments, she embodies what can be carried across a life transition: knowledge, discipline, care, and an earlier identity transformed rather than abandoned.
What She Carried Forward draws upon my transition from pediatric gastroenterologist to visual artist. The endoscope held by the figure refers directly to my years in medicine, but here it becomes more than a clinical instrument: it forms a bridge between two identities.
The figure is assembled from fragments of music, maps, printed papers, pattern, and paint, suggesting the many experiences that accumulate within a life. She has not discarded the physician she once was in order to become an artist. The qualities cultivated through medicine—observation, patience, listening, responsibility, and care—continue to shape the way she sees and creates.
The work considers metamorphosis not as erasure, but as continuation. We move forward carrying parts of our former selves, allowing them to find expression in a new language.
Size - 12” x 12” inch
Mixed Media
A faceless physician holds an endoscope, an instrument associated with the artist’s own medical specialty. Constructed from music, maps, patterned papers, and painted fragments, she embodies what can be carried across a life transition: knowledge, discipline, care, and an earlier identity transformed rather than abandoned.
What She Carried Forward draws upon my transition from pediatric gastroenterologist to visual artist. The endoscope held by the figure refers directly to my years in medicine, but here it becomes more than a clinical instrument: it forms a bridge between two identities.
The figure is assembled from fragments of music, maps, printed papers, pattern, and paint, suggesting the many experiences that accumulate within a life. She has not discarded the physician she once was in order to become an artist. The qualities cultivated through medicine—observation, patience, listening, responsibility, and care—continue to shape the way she sees and creates.
The work considers metamorphosis not as erasure, but as continuation. We move forward carrying parts of our former selves, allowing them to find expression in a new language.