. >> at the moment she slammed into the ground, markhbein's successful career as a journalist was over >> my head was cracked open. >> words that once came easily were now garbled, and the pain readia iatiating through her bo became a daily sensation. she needed an outlet. >> i naturally started to take paper and pencils and color things and draw things, and i didn't have a tbi. my mind functioned seamlessly while i was doing art. >> eventually, art was not just a respite from pain but a new vocation. >> this is the central park jogger. >> years later, markhbein is still coping with her injuries, still feeling cathartic after she paints. her latest work in a new york art gallery depicts people who also had a tbi. >> this was alex. she was shaken as a baby. >> her process mirrors traumatic brain injury. first, a charcoal rendering of her subject. then markhbein cuts the work into pieces. >> here i have something that is beautiful and whole, and by cutting and taking scissors to it, i feel like i'm reinflicting the traumatic brain injury to that person. >> the next phase of the process,