If you’ve been in the GS Lounge this semester, you've probably noticed the artwork adorning the walls—did you know it’s all created by your fellow GS’ers? This is the second iteration of the Columbia GS Arts and Research Collective, a forum for GS students to showcase original research and artistic creations to the @Columbia community. #ColumbiaPostbacPremed student and two-time heart transplant survivor Gianna Paniagua (@tragicdarling) shares the stories behind two of her creations currently on display: Mis Milagritos, a papercut piece, and an excerpt from her graphic comic entitled Pandemic Memoir. “My work is being displayed after two pieces were accepted into the @columbiags Arts and Research Collective! There’s an area just for GS students that always has a lot of traffic so I’m really happy my pieces get to be seen by so many. One is a papercutout I’ve posted on here called Mis Milagritos. It’s blue and green for Donate Life and has little Milagros for parts of my own body I wish to be healed. It’s fun posting about it now that @unosnews announced #1MillionTransplants. The second is a little scene from my Pandemic Memoir I made a while back. It’s something I loved making and documented my need to continuously be hospitalized during peak 2020 Covid for issues related to my heart transplant. Eventually it has the story of my retransplant evaluation that was traumatic and unusual to any other evaluation I’ve gone through. It ends with my being rejected from that center and looking forward to Vanderbilt in Nashville.” Link in bio to read “Pandemic Memoir” in full. #ColumbiaGS #ColumbiaUniversity #GSlounge #artscollective #transplantsurvivor #nontraditionalstudents #graphicmedicine