health and wellness and balanced and calm
You Wish Your Neurons Were This Pretty
When Greg Dunn finished his Ph.D. in neuroscience at Penn in 2011, he bought himself a sensory deprivation tank as a graduation present. The gift marked a major life transition, from the world of science to a life of meditation and art.
Now a full-time artist living in Philadelphia, Dunn says he was inspired in his grad-student days by the spare beauty of neurons treated with certain stains. The Golgi stain, for example, will turn one or two neurons black against a golden background. ”It has this Zen quality to it that really appealed to me,” Dunn said.
& then I find myself here again
assuming thoughts I’ll never know the truth of
but over the years I come back to this place
& i’m back, wandering this fantasy world I’ve created in my mind
River Lights by Arild Heitmann
A shot from saturday evening. Despite a long period with cold weather this river still provides some amazing opportunities…
