Works commissioned by the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics and Core IM podcast.

Nature used to dominate this Earth, and perhaps still does. But these days, we find it in the spaces left by our concrete jungles and at the farthest reaches of a long journey. This is a collection of watercolors made during my travels, from Halong Bay in Vietnam, to the San Bernardino hills of my hometown in California, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, to the shores of Greece.

It's quite difficult to capture a likeness, and harder still when you're at the mercy of flowing water and dripping color. Perhaps the easiest way to capture a person's essence is to catch them when they are deep in sleep, deep in their dreamscape, when they are still, and when their being is jailed in a static configuration of light and shadow.

The proud silhouette of McGraw Tower was a steady backdrop during the ups and downs of my maturation at Cornell. Just as Hokusai created 36 views of Mount Fuji, I etched and printed my own eerie memory of those few tumultuous undergraduate years in this series of "nocturnes."

It's quite simple: I draw what's in front of me. That's always been my tendency.

In the one year that I worked in the heart of the city, in Midtown, I took the 10 minute walk every morning and evening between Grand Central station and Rockefeller Plaza. And on the way, I'd see things, so many things, that had to be put down on paper. This is a collection of those scenes, at street level.

People-watching is a luxury and sometimes you should have to work for it. I've always found that when I catch someone in a moment, that moment stays forever for me. And every once in a while, I stumble on a moment that is not an unrequited remembrance but a mutual one.

Taipei is a city full of nooks and crannies, not to mention abundant reds.

Here lies commentary on discourse and censorship.

These illustrations serve as an outlet for feelings of wonder, angst, confusion, depression, love, hate, and everything in between, triggered by experiences in the medical world and in the world in general.

"Sydney's Song" is a children's book in progress, illustrated by me, and written by a passionate mother.

Gone are the days of tri-panel setups and club fairs...