As it's our second week and we all agreed we would spend this week gathering images, we decided that it would be a good idea to arrange a trip to a gallery to get some inspiration. As it so happens there is an exhibition on at the minute at the MOSI that focuses on the combination of art and the science of brains. This fits perfectly with what we want to try and achieve - a combination of science and dreams. It would be very beneficial to see how others have combined science and art.
The exhibition took a very scientific look at brains, with video's of people dissecting brains and exhibiting objects used to measure and "treat" medical issues with the brain from history through to modern day. However, some of the products scientists had produced to show the function of the brain and their theories were very artistic. Such as the above image of the brains blood vessels and the sculptures of how the shape of the head develops through to more "intelligent" people.
What I found very interesting was that by the end of the exhibition you were looking at these brains and objects of basically torture completely unsympathetically - they were just objects of interest. I had completely forgotten that these brains had been the life and soul of a human just like me and now here was the essence of that person being prodded, poked and observed with a complete lack of empathy. However, at the end of the exhibition they showed pictures and recordings of the people that had donated the brain. Suddenly it all comes rushing back that these were living people and I felt almost guilty and sad that I had been thinking watching them being picked apart so easily.
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