Like last weeks blogs, neuroscience is an ever growing field of technology, new knowledge, and more comprehension of the human brain. The human brain is responsible for the most within the body, as maintains the state of the body and is responsible for all thoughts. Neurons play a major role in the nervous system while they are responsible for connection between cells. "Golgi's method," coined by Camillo Golgi, is a neuron staining technique. It looks as so:
Another interesting topic involving the brain and neurons are drugs and hallucinogen. In the 50's, LSD was to have thought to be a psychological marvel to help cure depression and cases of schizophrenia. As LSD is also supposed help alcoholics, the drug has the ability to access one's subconscious. Once the an artist is able to tap into their conscious and subconscious brain, their artwork has little restrictions or guidelines. The artist can theoretically portray images and thoughts that they have while their subconscious train of thought is being accessed. This is two self portraits by the same person, one before an LSD dose and one a couple hours after.
"Day of the Dead" is an interesting ritual in Mexico which takes the common fear and sadness of death and turns it around to be a positive uplifting celebration of those loved ones who have passed. Families created vibrant and gorgeous altars and shrines to commemorate their passed family members. The tradition brings peace to the community and allows inevitable process of death to not be feared.
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I really that you mentioned how the artwork of artists is transformed by LSD. I think the self portrait you included has a great insight to the artist's opinion of how she thinks she looks to outsiders and how she looks on the inside.
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