When a biology major who also has a major in art puts on an exhibit, it looks at the interplay of life and death in graphic beauty. Carleen Spahn of Kenwanee is a senior at Eureka College who's artwork is currently on display in an exhibit entitled, "Vita Et Morte," or "In Life as in Death." Spahn says she finds one piece especially gratifying.
Spahn says she'd like to earn a living illustrating medical and science texts. She says Georgia O'Keeffe inspired her use of flowers intertwined with skulls and other symbols of death. Spahn says death should not be viewed as sad, but as an inspiration to great things in the limited time humans have allotted to them. The display is at Burgess Hall at Eureka College.