INTIMA SPRING 2020 | STUDIO ART

COVID’S AGONY | Sapana Adhikari

“This drawing represents the complex emotions running through each and every one of us,” says the artist. “Denial, desperation, uncertainty and fear.”

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS | Yan Emily Yuan

The process of differentiating between two or more conditions that share similar signs or symptoms can result in unexpected news.

EXPECTATION VS. REALITY | Spoorthi Davala

During the pandemic, health care workers balance perceived hopes and the real world every day.

GORDIAN KNOT | Elisabeth Preston-Hsu

In Greek and Roman mythology, the Gordian knot was an extremely complicated knot tied by Gordius, the king of Phrygia in Asia Minor, symbolizing a difficult problem that was almost impossible to solve.

HEALING | Joan Usher

Out of illness or injury comes a flowering of health and a new meaning for life and the world.

JUST LAUNDRY | Brina Bui

A clinician and artist explores the intertwined relationship between doctors and patients in the most basic of human needs: clothing.

MAN VERSUS NATURE VERSUS MAN | Ohirenua Giwa-amu

During challenging times it is important that clinicians remain connected to the natural world too.

OPIUM’S HOLD | Sapana Adhikari

Before our current health crisis, there was another one changing the face of our country.

WHAT LIES BENEATH | Sapana Adhikari

“Today, people live in a constant state of anguish about their health,” says Dr. Adhikari, the artist. They wonder about every ache and every pain. Is it cancer? A blood clot? An infection?”