Brain Cells: Thinking in Black and White and Brain Cells: Thinking in Color

Not too many people would appreciate a gift of over one thousand black and white photographs of brain cells as much as I have! They were presented to me by a neurobiologist's family,  just before Covid's onslaught. These photographs were a part of their close relative's research. The family was aware that I had been investigating the correlation between Art, Science, and Medicine using medical imagery, and hoped I could use the brain photographs in my artwork.
These unique photographs have challenged my mind, since the first time I looked at them. First, during the time Covid required isolation,  I glued together literally hundreds of them to create large constructions about Covid, (Pandemic, 48x116 inches). More examples of these large constructions can be found on my website:loisgoglia.net.

Recently, I started computer modifying single eight by ten-inch brain photographs.  First, I downloaded photographs I took of the original images.  Once they were on my computer, I manipulated the images, sometimes layering multiples, then colorizing and/or changing their values and/or opacities. Sometimes I introduced shapes and lines. Often, I depended on an Artificial Intelligence program to make the images more precise.

The black and white photographs, without any color additions, are intriguing, so I kept some of them in their original states, but added shapes, lines and textures. To me they represent an uncomplicated way of thinking. Whereas the multicolored brain photographs represent more nuanced, complicated thoughts.

To keep records of these brain cell photographs, I cataloged each image by the date it was created, rather than choose a title for each one. I prefer that every viewer use his or her imagination to invent titles derived from thoughts these prints generate.