Puzzling out Brain Iconography
By Glendon Mellow
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American
Artists who obsess about a subject can fall prey to repetition, and build a career out of what splattered-paint canvas or bowl of fruit after another. But artists like Michelle Hunter instead find a never-ending cascade of images worth exploring. Her obsession? The brain.
We'll be doing an interview with Hunter in the days ahead, but I had to share this one with you. Brains, painted on Rubik's Cubes. Will we ever solve ourselves?
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