© Danielle D’Amico MSI, Chenee De Ment MSI, Jill Stachowski MSI,
Ksenia Varlyguina MSI, Morgan Voulo MSI, Michael Flanagan, MD
University Park First-Year Medical Student Class
What is this interweaving chaos?
An unorganized, yet organized depiction
Colors arise,
All ending in different places, but sharing moments.
How my mind tries to make sense of this!
Many connections, like neurons, communicating a message;
Life can be messy.
The end we seek isn’t always the end that is meant to be.
We are bound together
And cannot untangle alone.
Tangled, interweaving web of life experiences.
It ends how it should.
This piece of artwork and poem titled “Interweaving Chaos” was created by a group of MSI students at University Park as part of the museum-based MI Humanities Course taught by Michael Flanagan, MD. The students visit the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University. They choose a piece of art to inspire a group poem. Each member of the group writes a line that describes what they see. Students cut the lines into strips of paper and arrange into stanzas to create a poem. “Interweaving Chaos” reflects on the past year. Subsequently, the students met one evening in a learning center to create a piece of art to accompany the poem.