it’s all in your head

I want to map and label a brain. But before I do, I decide to look more closely and try to understand the areas (oh boy! there’s so much!) of the brain. This small study lays out general regions of the brain and some of their activities (I’m bound to do more).

The drawing begins spontaneously after brief conversation with a friend. I respond to a feeling (probably in the frontal lobe).

My jumble of notes include random sentences and words:

• Brain: 24/7 watch dog
• Control center for sensory and motor activity
• controls thinking, memory, emotion, auditory and visual activity
• interprets sight, hearing, taste, smell and balance
• emotions are not feelings but are biochemical properties that produce feeling
• automatic
• somatic
• plasticity
• dynamic
• genes
• environment
• architecture
• every single thing you do makes your brain different.
• it has enormous creative ability.
• creativity originates in the brain.
• is a creativity machine.
• creativity receiver (via eye)

Other things influencing the direction of this study…

• Quick back and forth, in the early part of the week, with a friend, about memory (that’s her in the portrait).
• I am (still) thinking about pattern making and Aboriginal artwork.
•  I speak with someone in the medical profession about wanting to understand something fully. She responds by saying no one understand everything fully, especially when it comes to the human body.

Is this really what she said? I can’t remember. I should have written it down.

It’s all in your Head, Mixed media on paper, 8×8″

A note about brain health…
The work is mostly copper and gold ink. On a different note, based on what I understand about brain health, copper is a nutrient at low levels. Among other things, the body uses it for bone growth, nerve conduction and hormone secretion. In high concentration it is linked to cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease.