{"id":1323,"date":"2022-04-02T03:42:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T03:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/?page_id=1323"},"modified":"2024-11-15T21:02:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T21:02:55","slug":"mybrainself-portrait","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/?page_id=1323","title":{"rendered":"My brain self-portrait Paul Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My Brain Self-Portrait<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Paul Brain<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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At the age of 33, seizures and alexia became the artist\u2019s new normal. It all seemed unreal, speaking was difficult, reading and writing was almost impossible. The plasticity and near-infinite possibilities of the human brain have always fascinated the artist. The piece shown here reflects the reconstruction of the artist\u2019s brain in the wake of his health struggle. Connection are severed, pieces of the brain seem detached. This is how the brain reboots and what pieces it needs to rebuild itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pruning<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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He Must Be Out of His Mind<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>

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My Brain Self-Portrait Paul Brain painting on canvas, acrylic and sharpie At the age of 33, seizures and alexia became the artist\u2019s new normal. It all seemed unreal, speaking was difficult, reading and writing was almost impossible. The plasticity and near-infinite possibilities of the human brain have always fascinated the artist. The piece shown here… Continue reading My brain self-portrait Paul Brain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1294,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1323","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3724,"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1323\/revisions\/3724"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}