Darian Goldin Stahl is an American printmaker and bookmaker based in Montreal, Canada. She is currently a PhD Humanities student at Concordia University in Montreal. Darian employs research-creation methods to investigate how a haptic engagement with a person’s own medical scans can restore a sense of agency over the medicalized body, and in turn, change the way a doctor views her patient from a representative object into irreducible subject. Darian’s artwork employs visual metaphors to better represent what it is like to live with chronic illness on a daily basis. To this end, she combines signifiers of illness (such as MRI scans and hospital gowns) with sound, light, aromatic oils, and skin impressions to create immersive psychological snapshots of the patient’s mind while she is being scanned in the hospital. This arts-based inquiry is a collaborative cycle of informing and reconstructing illness identity, with the aim of advancing the field of medical humanities and fostering a more empathetic relationship between medical practitioners and their patients. Darian's thesis was awarded the prestigious Vanier Graduate Scholarship for her interdisciplinary research potential.