REVIEW: This Is Your Brain On Art
Technical.ly Baltimore reviews “On The Mind” at Maryland Art Place, featuring work from reMind
Photographer Jon Malis perhaps drives home the point most emphatically by showing depictions of the physical brain itself.
In photographing slides from a 100-year-old archive from St. Elizabeth’s psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., Malis found the limits to what you can tell about the brain just by looking at it.
“The people that he’s spoken with have said, ‘You really can’t even tell what was wrong with the patient,’” Royce said. “Even with all this visual information that we have, there’s really no way to even explain what was wrong with them.”
The statement lead this reporter to blurt out that there was still so much about the brain that we don’t know.
stephen babcock. This is your brain on art: Maryland Art Place exhibit
technical.ly Baltimore, 1/28/15