Category: Art & Science

The unexpected connection between scientific imagery and abstract art

beaded strands representing brain connections

My first encounter with abstract art left me confused and frustrated. Decades later, working with microscopy-inspired art forced me to confront an uncomfortable irony: to many viewers, my own work probably looks abstract too. This essay explores how science, symbolism, and ambiguity can coexist within art grounded in real biological images.

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Brilliant Mind: a beaded brain sculpture where neuroscience meets art

Brilliant Mind 2020 — one-of-a-kind beaded brain sculpture by neuroscientist and artist Yana Zorina

What does a brilliant mind actually look like? Neuroscientist and artist Yana Zorina recreates the human brain in thousands of hand-placed beads on plexiglass — built from real anatomical data and published in Consilience Journal. One-of-a-kind. Available now.

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Finding time for art — and then forgetting to use it

I thought life would get easier as my daughters grew older. It didn’t. Somewhere between parenting and daily routines, I found time for art—and then had to relearn how to use it.

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