#arborescent — Public Fediverse posts

Tonight's installment of #myfavoritethings will probably be well-known to many of you: the exquisite #anatomical #drawings of the Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934). I'm never quite sure what blows my mind more: his talent and sureness of hand in depicting these #arborescent neural structures, or the fact that they are in us — indeed, in some reductionist sense, *are* us. The images here aren't even his best. https://greyartgallery.nyu.edu/exhibition/beautiful-brainthe-drawings-santiago-ramon-y-cajal/sec/images/