watercolor and ink; 20×16″ 
“This piece isn’t meant to be considered political, it is however meant to be about the treatment of women in healthcare. I want to emphasize that it is not meant to be political and is meant to spread awareness on the topic. To me peoples bodies aren’t political, if you think otherwise then that is your interpretation. There’s a caduceus staff, the symbol for healthcare in the United States, but it’s altered to have a skeletal snake, to represent the women that have died due to medical neglect and it has the symbol of venus at the top to show that it is specifically about women. The flowers around the side also all represent femininity in some way outside of the forget me nots which are funeral flowers.Through my research I found many women who shared their stories about how doctors treated them.I also found obituaries and outraged families because those women were not around anymore to share their story because doctors choose fear over someone’s life. I was left wondering how many more doctors would break their oath, leaving these  women to become unwilling martyrs and how much time it will take until their deaths are called murder.”
ARTIST BIO: Briella COMBS is a grade 12 student at Butler Tech School of Art studying art under art teacher Mary Catherine Ruby.