You can purchase traditional prints from Self Reflected here, and new specialized microetched prints with animated reflective effects here.
Final Images:
- The entire Self Reflected microetching under violet and white light
- The entire Self Reflected microetching under white light
- The pons, a region involved in movement and implicated in consciousness
- The motor and parietal cortex, regions involved in movement and sensation, respectively.
- The brainstem and cerebellum, regions that control basic body and motor functions
- A sulcus of the parietal cortex
- The visual cortex, the region located at the back of the brain that processes visual information.
- Raw colorized microetching data from the pons
- Raw colorized microetching data from the reticular formation
- The parietal gyrus where movement and vision are integrated
- The thalamus and basal ganglia, sorting senses, initiating movement, and making decisions.
- Dissected circuitry from the basal ganglia in raw colorized microetching data
- The basal ganglia, involved in movement, decision making, and reward
- The laminar structure of the cerebellum, a region involved in movement and proprioception (calculating where your body is in space)
- A zoomed in shot of the surface of a microetching revealing its microscopically etched surface.
- The midbrain, an area that carries out diverse functions in reward, eye movement, hearing, attention, and movement.
Process Images:
- Becca van Sciver and Ajay Leister applying gold leaf to microetched plates.
- Computational analysis of neural firing patterns in the cerebellum.
- Carl Wittig assembling LEDs for the light bar.
- Becca van Sciver fighting unstable pH readings of the etching development bath
- Dr. John Pyles entering the MRI scanner for DSI data collection (photo credit: John Pyles)
- Finished microetched plates ready for trimming.
- Initial placement of neurons in the cortex.
- Brian analyzing the first assembly of completed plates
- Trish Ramadoss loading the LED light bar for transport to the Franklin Institute
- Computational analysis of neural connectivities in the cerebellum
- Initial timing calculations for circuitry in the basal ganglia.
- Superior colliculus – initial neuron drawing and placement for the superior colliculus
- Preliminary render of diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) data from the brain of Dr. John Pyles that inspired the layout of the white matter in Self Reflected.
- Greg (background) and Brian (foreground) applying a lithography transparency (photo: Will Drinker)
- Hanging the LED bar at the Franklin Institute
- A simplified map of how information travels through the brain.
- Greg and Brian with Self Reflected at the Franklin Institute.
- Boyu Zhang laying out light placements on the light bar.
- Early map of brain regions in Self Reflected
- Greg soldering LEDs.
- Mengxi Tan soldering LEDs for the light bar parietal timing values- algorithmic simulation of neural firing patterns in the parietal cortex
- Melissa Beswick soldering LEDs for the light bar
- Brian on plate trimming day.
- Where the Self Reflected slice is located.