Silk Neural Network
by Shoshanah Dubiner
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19.000 x 24.000 inches
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Title
Silk Neural Network
Artist
Shoshanah Dubiner
Medium
Painting - Gouache On Bristol
Description
Dennis Kunckel's microphotograph of the silk gland spigots of a spider inspired this painting. The corrugated tubular parts are the spigots; the smooth, hose-like parts are actually the silk threads themselves. From the silk spigots in the bottom of the painting, silk threads rise up, braid themselves and meet ..... the brain, itself made of long thin filamentous neurons. Here the neurons extend outward, their branching dendrites receiving those neurotransmitters that allow us to think, feel and act.
In 1906, Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramon y Cajal both shared the Nobel prize in medicine for their research on the nervous system. Golgi saw the nervous system as a network -- thus the spider web (and its pink spiders). Cajal recognized it as a branching structure with neurons not touching each other but communicating via chemicals. His was the correct interpretation.
Like a chimera, this painting depicts parts like silk spigots, spider web, brain, and neurons, that are of different origins yet which come together to form a mysterious whole. As I paint, I think about how the very process of creating images is connected to the structure of my/our human brain. ATTENTION: Painting is best reproduced on SMOOTH PAPER, NOT CANVAS OR TEXTURED PAPER.
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November 27th, 2009
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