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Evergreens at Sunset
Evergreens at Sunset is inspired by The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Season 7, Episode 3. We chose to paint Evergreens at Sunset for our paint night (Genetics Counseling Graduate Program) for its fall-like palette. Paint Night brought us together as graduate students and as friends.

Devin Marie Pillis
Graduate Student, OSU Genetic Counseling Graduate Program
Class of 2022
Artistic Media: Acrylic Paint on Canvas

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Evergreens at Sunset
A few of the students in the OSU Genetic Counseling Graduate Program gathered for a Paint Night!
Painting along with Bob Ross (via Zoom) they painted Evergreens at Sunset from Season 7, Episode 3 of The Joy of Painting.
Devin Pillis was kind enough to share photos from the event.

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Patient

Vulnerable
with restless hair
snapped too-big gown
skin paper-thin
eyes searching for answers
hands outstretched
impatient promises
shakily given, easily broken
the clock and the IV pole
marking endless hours
time does not exist here.

Jessica Rutsky, MD
Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellow,
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Voices in Humanism Board

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Brian Fowler
OSU College of Medicine Class of 2022
The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature’s law is wrong it
learned to walk without having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose the grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.

Artists: Phillip Anjum (photographer) and Elizabeth Auckley (painter)
Medium: Oil paint on printed canvas
Artist Statement: We are current medical students at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. For our Portrait Project, each student was first photographed ‘in their element’; in a space where they felt comfortable. The photos were then completely de-saturated and then printed on canvas to represent the depersonalization that medical school experience may instill as well as the constant disorientation that comes with embracing a completely new and uncertain world. The colors painted back onto the canvas represent the uniqueness of each individual that shines through the showcase of the human faces of future physicians who will be caring for patients across the country and the world.

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Snowbound
Our hilltop home in New Hampshire, surrounded by forest, allows for solitude and the quietness to ‘hear’ the wind and snow. Robert Frost, writing of his New Hampshire home, expresses best for me the experience of winter’s snow in the last lines from ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’:

The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Photographer:
Louise Dierker, MD, MPH, MM, MFA
OSU College of Medicine Class of 1967
Following a career in medicine as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Dr. Louise Dierker pursued her love of music, earning degrees in music composition.

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A Pavlova Voting Inspiration
“ The excitement over voting in the election inspired me to make pavlova as a way to celebrate with a treat!”
(Pavlova is a meringue-based dessert named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova during the 1920s).

Grace Lee
Class of 2021, OSU College of Medicine
Voices in Humanism Board
Ether Arts Editorial Board

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CoronaFlower
(Actually known as a Maypop Purple Passion Flower)
“Nature Imitating science perhaps?”

Jody Glaser Sobol
Photographer
Medical Student Mom

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Régine Vincent
OSU College of Medicine Class of 2022

Defining Quote: “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive. And to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” -Dr. Maya Angelou

Artists: Phillip Anjum (photographer) and Elizabeth Auckley (painter)
Medium: Paint on printed canvas

Artist Statement: We are current medical students at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. For our Portrait Project, each student was first photographed ‘in their element’; in a space where they felt comfortable. The photos were then completely de-saturated and then printed on canvas to represent the depersonalization that medical school experience may instill as well as the constant disorientation that comes with embracing a completely new and uncertain world. The colors painted back onto the canvas represents the uniqueness of each individual that shines through the showcase of the human faces of future physicians who will be caring for patients across the country and the world.