Representation of Hidden Communication

Neuroscience is a pop-culture fixation, but the public knows little about how science is done, who does it, or why it’s essential. One consequence of opaque research is the inability to see those who make new findings, their stories, and why they seek to reveal the complexity of nature.

 

These images were captured with a manual large format camera, designed and fabricated from a precision injection mold, and created using experimental pull-apart instant film. This series is set up to mimic that of scientific data acquisition, where tools are engineered for the demands of the project.

 

The opaqueness of the positive (left) represents the raw data collected by researchers on their quest to understand the brain. The inverted negative (right) represents how scientists reveal the mind by filtering data, beautifying imagery, and removing captured noise.