Science and art combined into one creation! This painting was meant to provoke thought on how the body integrates various systems including the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system, the lymphatic system, and the cardiovascular system. Can stress alter an immune response? This work was done in several steps, beginning with the purple fibers (sympa) and then the red-orange fibers (para), followed by the blue-green (lymph), and finally the pinkish tracts (hema). Lastly I put in the background which is a three layer glaze. The background is a soft fleshy colour. I wanted the work to have an anatomical feel, like you were inside an organ of the body. At the same time channeling Jackson Pollock the great American abstract painter. It is also similar in some ways to "Love and Fear", an old painting I did in 1998 which depicted a being inside of a lymph node.
22 x 15" cold press, watercolour, June 2017
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