Brilliant Mind: a beaded brain sculpture where neuroscience meets art

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.

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.

Fragile Memory: A neuroscience-inspired bead embroidery of the hippocampus

"Fragile Memory" translates the colorful neural networks of the hippocampus into bead embroidery, revealing the delicate architecture behind human memory.

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