HART Project
Karen Chan, artist/nurse, founded Human Art Randomized Trial 🎥 to tell stories often left untold! as an outsider. In 2012, I became a registered nurse.
In 2009, I started drawing random people (of all sorts) from Hastings Street in an effort to change perceptions of the infamous Downtown Eastside (DTES) in inner city Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. My sense of fear quickly jumped out the window, and I began to try to see the community through its own eyes vs. My desire to advocate for understanding of a thriving community and not judgment or
08/19/2026
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Merci beaucoup.
Je ne suis pas une infirmiere.
Je suis simplement une femme humanitaire!
Toujours en solitaire!
Pas c’est pas vraie.
On est ensemble.
Imperfect
AND
Impartiale.
But it’s simplest to say it’s entirely absolutely wrongly impossible.
But important!
I did my best to be a RN
With no license.
Thank you.
I am going to say.
I am quietly enternally proud.
I would rather entertain the world
Than care for it.
But they ARE actually one in the same.
Karen Chan
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08/19/2026
Quietly proud of taking care if humans.
2009-2026.
This may be it for this global health nurse.
Who lost RN her license due to and my shame in staying silent when I bore witness to .
If those of two silences I dare dedicate this battle to… as a human.
That’s enough.
Aspiring DJ & Philanthropist.
Karibu Karen
08/19/2026
The future is ethical AI. If a community is ALWAYS part of the ecosystem!
Karibu,
Karen, Kenya! 🇰🇪
My friends is in the ICU after a neurosurgery. Can we please pray for her. I tried, but I don’t believe in anything but community anymore.
but RN’s and hope.
And music.
And friends.
Lisa Goard
LiSA
08/18/2026
❤️
Leif Bent
Prayers and song for my friend in the Neuro ICU.
08/18/2026
Wow, kabisa sana!
Ugandan 🥁 & 💃!
Batuki Music Society 🇺🇬
08/10/2026
Revisiting some art and hearing some signs to go home. Did you know there’s a place called Karen in Nairobi! I have always wanted to say….”Hi! My name is & this is my hospital, Karen Hospital!” Photos: my art from 2016-2017, GraffitiGirlsKenya pawa254 , grad school research the comic book
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