After Cajal
by
Jo-Anne Green
From Drawings to Digital Prints
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2017
Limited Edition Handmade Artists' Book
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"How treelike the human, how human the tree." - Gretel Erhlich
I have been interested in the visual and functional intersections of trees — branching, fractals, and neural networks — and the human brain for many years. After Cajal pays homage to Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), the Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist who specialized in the histology of the central nervous system. He made hundreds of drawings of the microscopic structures of the brain. >>
Related work: The Marriage Tree (also see notes.)
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