2020 Online Salon
The World is Out of Breath

Project Details
- Entrant Name: Cynthia Turner
- Membership Type: Professional Submission
- Other Contributors: Cynthia Turner
- Address: Santa Rosa Beach, Florida USA
- Client: Alexander & Turner Inc. Medical Illustration Studio
- Copyright: 2020 Cynthia Turner
- Medium/software used: epmv, Cinema 4D R20, Photoshop CS6
- Final presentation format: Print and Digital
- Primary Audience: Art Buyers, Creative Directors, Art Directors of Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Companies
Project Description
One of a series of images distributed via a self-promotional marketing program to prospective clients to promote the artist’s creativity, artistry and storytelling.Contemplating the respiratory ravages of severe acute respiratory syndrome from SARS-CoV-2, lung epithelial cells are portrayed as a planetary landscape immersed in a cyanotic, watery underworld. Viral budding from the plasma membrane of lung epithelial cells enables coronaviruses to exit the host cell after infection and replication. This initiates a cytokine storm, a sudden over-response all at once from an immune system gone awry, producing an inflammatory response flaring out of control.