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The art of diagnosis
Wood art The taxing journey of going through an illness often has the turning point of hearing a “diagnosis.” Diagnosis locks a person inside a sick body. Diagnosis is a label that dictates certain behavior in an individual and the whole ci…
The abundant and colorful world of pharmaceuticals
Creative photography Year after year, new medications find their way into the market, adding to the abundant and colorful world of pharmaceuticals. Medications play a dual role in our lives, as they represent wellness and illness concomitantly. I am pr…
The ritual of taking medications: the pill wheel
Woodworking / Illustration The problem with the act of taking medications is that it’s so mundane that we don’t see any problem with it. This machine-cut, flat, unemotional, same-size-fits-all object that we defencelessly welcome in our very private bo…
Colorful pills don’t paint my world
Pyrography Medicine bottles are mundane objects tightly woven into our daily lives, with the promise of happier moods, better sleep, and lower blood pressure. Nevertheless, nothing on these objects correlates with hope, faith, or a feeling of healthine…
When air hurts and becomes the harshest invader
Wood art When Air Hurts When the Lung Repulses Air When Air Becomes the Harshest Invader When Air Is Heavier Than Mountains This work was inspired by my father and many other patients who were struggling to breathe. The soft, unnoticeable air suddenly …
The life cycle of medication consumption
Photography A person’s lifetime medication consumption has a familiar and predictable pattern. The more a person ages, the greater their number of taken medication. However, the public behavior in initiating medication has been changed compared to thir…
4280: the number of pills Bob took last year
An installation to explore the impact of medications in daily life Bob is a typical patient at the pharmacy with a chronic illness. Bob, along with 30 other random patients whom I followed in the year 2017, had been picked up to explore the number of m…
