Some objects become part of a place so completely that you stop noticing them—until years later, when you see them again and a flood of memories comes rushing back. That happened to me during a visit to my graduate school department several years ago. I stopped by to say hello to my old advisor, but... Continue Reading →
Have you ever looked at a pixelated image from too close? At first, all you see are squares. Sharp edges. Blocks of color that seem disconnected from one another. The image makes little sense. Then you take a few steps back. Suddenly, those random squares become a face, a landscape, or a familiar object. Nothing... Continue Reading →
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.
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.
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" translates the colorful neural networks of the hippocampus into bead embroidery, revealing the delicate architecture behind human memory.
SciArt that’ll make you feel Smart 