Left Brain Artists
Alcohol Ink Paintings I thought that artist’s creations ‘speak for themselves’. And they likely ‘speak’ different things to different people. In some socially engaged art, artist’s message may be blatantly apparent; in other cases it is open for a range of emotional or intellectual reactions that shape its meaning. We don’t need to know verbatim […]
Photography When I was a young woman, socially engaged, with a keen interest in philosophy and psychology, I was quite taken by the ‘To Have or to Be?’, a landmark book of the late 20th century by the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, in which he writes about modern world becoming materialistic, obsessed with the unlimited production […]
Food and art Food is our bare survival, but we, humans, often make an art out of it. A tasteful art! Perhaps the most of ‘all things artistic’, food stimulates diverse senses – smell, taste, tactile and visual – so no wonder that our brains go wild when we smell delicate balance of spices and […]
BrainArt – June 24th We were just about to wrap-up our Friday group ‘seance’ (as Hung calls it), when Aman magically appears on the Zoom screen, fresh with the announcement of results from the BrainArt competition. We had another unplanned, nail-bitting presentation that was a cause of a much subsequent celebration! You guess, our submissions […]
June 20th, 2021 Our ‘Colors of the Music’ project is currently exhibited at the 2021 OHBM BrainArt exhibition! In the company of brain-exploring art collections of some amazing artists; we are humbled and excited to be part of this event. On display were colorful and thoughtful digital brain images, neuronal ‘connections’ depicted using inks and […]
Acrylic pouring and drawing-equestrian This is a story that combines physics, neuroscience, horse-riding and art inspirations. Well, it really is a story of our love and empathy for animals and their selfless way of giving back, passionately told to us by Marzia. “I have dedicated my professional life to a pursuit of a better understanding […]
Our houses have become a center of attention and contemplation – bound to them during pandemic lockdowns, we came to both love and hate them – homes that protect and prisons at the same time. Our inner freedoms and our face to (or against) the outside world. Houses seen from outside often have a face. […]
Our Easter celebration was a special treat. We featured an amazing skill of Anna’s mom in decorating Easter eggs in a traditional Polish way – and she joined us to pass the meaning and joy of these traditions. A celebratory virtual food offerings in a form of watercolors and acrylic paintings was presented by Dana. […]
We did not have a clue what this mystery presentation was all about. Turned out it was about an unexpected discovery of an ancient piece of a rock in a quiet neighborhood; a rock that excited both the local community and professional mineralogists. Here is a short report on this unexpected encounter with the ancient […]
Mixed media assemblies This is a story of bead baking… You must be thinking – what does Rothko have to do with bead baking? Well, here it goes… Hung and I were making some suncatchers and garden decorations from plastic beads on my deck to brighten our spirits dampened by the pandemic situation. A girlish […]
Left Brain Artists