The Nutrition Center

In 2007, I illustrated several medical and agricultural projects in the Central African Republic. One of the projects was to illustrate the causes, symptoms, types and remedies of malnutrition for the purpose of educating parents about this common problem and hopefully save lives. This project required gathering reference photos from a hospital where children were being treated for malnutrition. It was very difficult to see. But there were also children who had mostly recovered and were happily running around and playing. These children gave me the hope and purpose to complete the illustrations I'd been asked to make.