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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.