Laura Brubaker

A manzanita shrub with dark brown foliage seen over a coper colored background.

"Manzanita: Late fall fade" - appreciation for native plants and the beauty they bring through every season.
#VisualeyesRx #nativeplant #art #nature

"Sunshine - Copper currents 1" - bringing awareness to native plants, Oregon sunshine and honeysuckle vine.
#VisualeyesRx #nativeplants #nature #art #botanicald

A photomontage of leaves - honeysuckle and manzanita in hues of brown and mauve with a sense of movement and current.

"Windswept" an homage to native plants - honeysuckle and manzanita.
#VisualeyeRx #nativeplants #nature #art

Severe allergic conjunctivitis - show on a caucasian with brown iris. This is an inflammatory condition of the conjunctiva (the clear membrane lining the inside of the eyelid and covering the white of the eye) caused by an allergic reaction to substances like pollen, pet dander, or dust mites. It's characterized by symptoms like red, itchy, and watery eyes. This left eye depicts red swollen lids, a bright red lower eyelid margin, watering eyes with chemosis and bright red irritated conjunctival vessels.

The power of pollen - this photograph composite shows a background of abstracted pink petals and in the center are light white pear blossom clusters giving a pastel floating feel to the flowers.

Seasonal allergic conjunctivitis is a major burden — Illustrating the subtleties of conjunctival severity on a standardized model improves physician training, clinical grading, repeatable assessments for treatment outcomes.
#ophthalmology #clinicaltrials #allergies #medicalillustration #art #sciart

Old leaves, veined and fragmented lit in a coppery tinted color and overlapping one another.

"Threadbare Gilded Age"

#Visualeyesrx #naturephotography

A picture of a flower stalk floating with petals pulled from the flower and floating nearby. The flower is Tolmie's Lily or Pussy Ears. The background is a textured mixtured of golds and browns and purples with a close up of the hairy petals reflected in the background. Copyright by Laura Brubaker 2025. These are photos all taken on the same day and woven together.

"Dismantled" Tolmie's Lily
#VisualeyesRx #Nature #Wildflower #Sciart

Child, age 9, holding a purple starfish while kneeling on the Oregon coast.

#EarthDay 2025
1980. Touching nature inspires a lifelong connection.

In 2014, I taught marine biology. That year, starfish wasting disease ravaged the species and left them unavailable to experience.

What we protect today defines what future generations will learn from tomorrow.

#Visualeyesrx

Laura at age seven sitting on the couch in pajamas with her eyes bandaged. She is clutching a hotwater bottle and attempting to pose for a photo following a trip to the emergency department to have bark debris removed from her eyes following an apple tree climbing mishap.

I first lost my sight (temporarily) at age 7 in a tree-climbing mishap (while dressed as 3 superheroes). That early darkness shaped my path. Now, I design with vision equity in mind—translating science into accessible visuals for all. Vision is personal. Access is essential.
#VisualeyesRx #eye

A diagram overview of glycolysis and the process of extracting energy from glucose. A large hexagon of pink glucose is interacted upon by phosphofructokinase and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate to release protons, electrons used in capturing energy in the molecules of ATP and NADH.

A storyboard diagram for the animation of energy extraction from a glucose molecule. I always pictured it being a bit like a loaf of bread thrown into a sea of waiting fish! Fast and furious with one molecule after another coming by for a quick snack!

#SciArt, #MedicalIllustration, #VisualeyesRx

Showing a detail of the electron transport chain where the coenzyme FAD swoops in to pick up electrons and protons during the conversion of glucose to energy. In the process the use of metaphor is applied to animate FAD like a hang glider swooping in.

Energized or exhausted?
Metabolism matters but is terribly boring for students!
In this storyboard the coenzyme FAD molecules were designed to mimic hang gliders. This animated behavior reinforces the idea that FAD=ENERGY and metabolic ENERGY=FUN!
#Visualeyesrx #medicaillustration

A photoblend of firey colors, burned looking wood, and the portrait of Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic after his release of texts from the Signal Gate exchange.

Portrait history - March 2025
#signalgate

"Democratic Lecanomancy" - the branches of government, will they balance or break?

Lecanomancy is a form of divination using a dish of water.

#VisualEyesRx #nature #photooftoday #Democracy

white flowers, a native Pacific Northwestern weed called toothwort. Photographed against a colorful abstract background

Toothwort. Beautiful signs of change from winter to spring. Delicate seeming yet resistant and hardy.
#Visualeyesrx #Spring #nature #photooftheday

Reading "The Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan and filled with the awe that permeates the galaxy and searches the the outer and inner limits. When we ask why - amazing things can happen.
#art #visualeyesrx #NatureLovers #universe #sciart

"The Knowing" -

Dedicated to the scientists who look for truth and hold their ideals core to their being.

#Artist #Nature #artwork #VisualEyesRx #artoftheday #SciArt

Brilliant

This is my retinol lab for vitamin A testing last month. Please note - even on the recommended vitamin A dosing for a woman my age...I am starting to creep up the scale and getting to the higher end after 6 months of daily supplementation. High vitamin A can cause organ damage.
#measles #vitaminA

When the air is alive - springtime and the labor of breathing. As an asthmatic and medical artist, this was the image I felt best encapsulated the anxious feelings that accompany the first flowers of spring. Used in a recent dinner talk on asthma. #asthma #sciart #lungs #pulmonology #visualeyesrx

"Drying blood, death by a thousand cuts."
When change is everywhere and everywhere is change.
©Laura Brubaker 2025

#Artist #Nature #artwork #VisualEyesRx #artoftheday

Trees layered over water as the sun moves through bare branches and reflections. A feeling of winter and yet an anatomical nature of the work as if the trees are lungs trying to take a breath underwater. There is a ghostly discomfort and energy of movement in the piece.

"Restless" - a photo-blend of change.
#Artist #Nature #artwork #VisualEyesRx #artoftheday

Silhouette of a human in profile showing their respiratory pathways. In this image the upper respiratory system is inflamed by environmental conditions.

Silhouette of a human in profile showing their respiratory pathways. In this image the entire system in being choked by dirty air and the lungs are shown in black.

Silhouette of a human in profile showing their respiratory pathways. In this image the environment is shown as red and firey but the lung tissue is less reactive than expected.

Silhouette of a human in profile showing their respiratory pathways. In this image the upper respiratory system is highly inflamed by mild environmental conditions.

A series of images created for a dinner presentation on Asthma and current clinical trials available for patients not responding well traditional treatments.

#asthma #sciart #lungs #pulmonology #visualeyesrx

Lower lid margin swelling can be associated w/ anterior blepharitis. This key marker of lower lid expansion results in smoothing of skin texture relative to severity of the progression and used in objective grading by ophthalmologists.
#ophthalmology #sciart #eye #VisionHealth #visualeyesrx

Yellow wildflowers in a photo blend of orange and fuschia colored patterns found in nature.

Springing up!
In celebration of seeing the first flower of the year - the first butterfly of the year and our seed library giving away 3500 packets of seed - a colorful photo blend as we head into March!
#Artist #Nature #artwork #VisualEyesRx #artoftheday

Screenshot of a Scientific American interview with their own graphics editor.

Drawings of neurons in gray ink on manilla colored paper. The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramon y Cajal published in 2017 by Larry W. Swanson (Author), Eric Newman (Author), Alfonso Araque (Author).

Scientific American interviewed design editor Amanda Montañez. A fellow medical illustrator and designer, we also share a love of Ramon Y Cajal - book "The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramon y Cajal"
#sciart #visauleyesrx

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The sun is ever brighter today. The deluge of first flight butterflies and their orange wings brings to mind Pterygium.

pteryx, meaning "wing", and pterygion, meaning "fin".

The common name is "Surfer's Eye" due to the UV exposure.
#sciart #ophthalmology #visualeyesrx #eye #visioncare

After a recent deluge of water I traced the track of water down the mountain and discovered a beautiful sediment where the finest fines had been deposited. The shadows of the shrubs above mostly concealed the delicate beauty - but it was there.

#Artist #Nature #artwork #VisualEyesRx #artoftheday

A photo-blend capturing a moment of prismatic color as the sun hit the fog on a cold mountain top. Trees in silhouette are shown in various colors of the rainbow with an emerging glowing sun in the center.

Earlier this week as I approached the summit of the mountain the morning sun penetrated the fog and started glowing from the trees - this is a photo-blend reminiscent of that fleeting moment with the fog halo was a rainbow of colors.
#Artist #Nature #artwork #VisualEyesRx #artoftheday

Ophthalmology photo of a UV damaged eye. The image shows a small yellow deposit called a pinguecula on the eye. Flecks of green in the white areas, conjunctiva, of the eye are indicative of lissamine green staining that indicates wear-spots, devitalized cells, in the outer tissue layers of the eye.

Out my window at this moment is glorious sun! All that light is a reminder to shield our eyes from UV light. Photo-illustrated below is a pinguecula, a deposit found in UV damaged surfaces on the conjunctiva as shown by lissamine green staining. #ophthalmology #sciart #artist #VisionCare

photo of a white oak tree silhouette taken during a wind storm layered with other photos including ice macro photos to give a vibrating colorful environment of trembling energy in gold, pink, and blue.

ART OF THE DAY - 2" "Enlightenment" Photo blending technique (ice, moss, and oak) with Samsung 21 Ultra camera)
#Artist #Nature #artwork #VisualEyesRx #artoftheday

ART OF THE DAY -
"Liquefaction; a timely condition."
Photo blending technique (5 gallon ice bucket and maple leaves with Samsung 21 Ultra camera)

#Artist #Nature #artwork #VisualEyesRx #artoftheday