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2020 Finalist, Grade 12

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."

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