2020 Finalist, Grade 12
- Aima Bhatti
- Cure for Beriberi, 2020
- Colored pencil, marker on paper.
- 12 x 9 in
Teacher: LMC Fellow Lora Durr (2019 NJ)
School: Hopewell Valley Central Highschool, Pennington, NJ
Excerpt from artist’s Impact Statement: "I chose to draw a mouse in an Erlenmeyer flask because of the fact that he tested thiamin on a population of rats. I decided to make the molecular structures of thiamine both red and blue to symbolize veins and arteries (blue veins, red arteries) because beriberi can cause heart failure."
Read the artist's Impact Statement.
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