[CarolynS]

Exploring Science Through Art

Wall Street Journal, ART & AUCTIONS, DECEMBER 3, 2010
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...on%27s+disease

Excerpt: "All the while, the artists—Ms. Dowson and David Marron—sketch and photograph, look and sketch again. For Mr. Marron, a paramedic as well as an artist, whose encounter with brains is usually in the chaos and trauma of a fatal accident, what is particularly interesting is 'this clean setting and calm atmosphere, where you can isolate the matter at hand.' But this too is a problem. 'You have these dehumanizations to cope with—I am trying to find recognition,' he explains, noting that the brain does bear a passing resemblance to a trussed chicken, the cerebellum to a pickled walnut. For Ms. Dowson, a key moment is when Dr. Roncaroli takes a sheet of blue kitchen towel and carefully pats a damp section of brain, producing an instant ghostly image. She gets him to repeat the action several times, commenting: 'This is why you don't have artists in the lab!' "