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Sunnu Rebecca Choi Brings Poetic Visuals to Neuroscience Reporting

Visualizing the Mind: Sunnu Rebecca Choi’s Poetic Approach to Neuroscience Illustration

Neuroscience reporting often leans on charts, graphs, and dense academic language. But in her recent series for The Transmitter, illustrator Sunnu Rebecca Choi offers a different entry point—one that is quiet, lyrical, and deeply human.

Sunnu’s concept-driven illustrations use soft, atmospheric palettes and symbolic imagery to distill complex ideas into visual moments of clarity. Rather than simply depicting data, her work evokes the emotional and philosophical dimensions of scientific inquiry. The result is a series that feels as much like fine art as it does editorial illustration.

Her images accompany features on subjects that cut across the neuroscience landscape, including:

• Autism research perspectives

• Communicating curiosity-driven science

• Rethinking how much we read

• Mentorship gaps for marginalized students

• Bridging theory and experimentation

Each piece invites the reader to pause—to consider not just what we know about the brain, but how we come to know it, and who is included in that journey. In Sunnu’s hands, science is not stripped of its complexity, but rendered in a way that welcomes curiosity and reflection.

Sunnu Rebecca Choi is represented by Mendola Artists.