#arborescent — Public Fediverse posts

@adamgreenfield Very much appreciate how you are describing this work. First heard about it from Jerry Saltz - whose insistence that the work be "elevated" as "art" seemed beside the point. In our social media exchange I said I had to see it in person. Amazingly this show ended up at the Ackland at UNC Chapel Hill - so I was able to witness it firsthand. Your take on a kind of self-recognition that allows us to commune with it makes sense to me. Also - the word #arborescent made my night.

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/