For the Artwork I decided to focus my project on chirality. Chirality surrounds us everywhere; our hands are the simplest example. Indeed, both hands are mirror images of each other but they cannot be superimposed. It is the same thing with chiral compounds which are molecules that has non-super imposable mirror images.

The artwork I did is a painting where I tried to illustrate chirality under different forms. The painting represents two parallels words each referring to either the R- or the S- configuration of molecules (they are enantiomers which makes them mirror images of each other). The door in the middle of the canvas is showed in order to connect both worlds, because there is no R without S the same way as non-chiral compounds don't have enantiomers. Afterwards, on both sides there is a little girl where one is normal and the other one has shorter hands. This character refers to the thalidomide incident that occurred in the 60's where a lot of babies had abnormalities due to an anti-sickness drug. Afterwards, the threes at the back refer to the compound of limonene, where it either smells as a lemon or an orange depending on if it is R or S. For this reason, one three has lemons and on the other side it has oranges; both referring to limonene's smell. To continue, the little butterfly symbolizes the L-amino acids that are present on Earth. Humans are all composed off L-amino acids, which means that if they move to another world with only D-amino acids they would not survive (D/L configuration is the same as R/S) because the digestion will be very hard. Returning to the painting once again, the butterfly refers to the same situation; it is compatible with the amino acids of one world, but if it moves to the other side, it dies. Finally each world is identified at the top as R or S. All the elements that are in the R half correspond as the R isomers of the elements, as in the S half everything that is represented there corresponds to the S isomers.

Presently, many of us complain about the prices of medication, but only a few know that it is due to the complicated separation of enantiomers in chiral compounds. Indeed, 80% of today's drugs are chiral and 200 others come to the market every year. As they have the same melting point, boiling point, etc, their separation is very complicated which costs the pharmaceutical companies a lot. For this reason, as the technologies develop, in a few years we should hope the prices will drop, which will make medication accessible to the less fortunate as well.

In conclusion, Organic Chemistry is the fundamental key for the understanding of life on Earth, of the process of synthesizing medication or simply for the understanding of digestion and nutrition. The more scientists elaborate their knowledge, the better it would be for helping humans in those fields.