Intersecting Pentagons Description and Oil on Canvas
During my Psychiatry clerkship, I administered the Mini-Mental Status Exam to my patients to assess and trend changes in cognitive functioning. The MMSE includes a portion called the Pentagon Drawing Test where patients are asked to copy two intersecting pentagons. Some patients produced perfect replicas while the more cognitively impaired produced stand-alone pentagons, quadrangles or simply disjointed lines. I found this variability to be incredibly visually striking and sought to display it on canvas, in order of increasing impairment.
Adiba K. Anam
Class of 2021 Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 49
