In 2004 when I developed a facial paralysis, my doctor ordered a thorough set of MRI’s to examine the cause. While trying to cope (I recovered later that year), I came to the realization that these scans would make the perfect, albeit clinical, self-portrait: a map of each section of my brain.
I researched brain imagery in medical texts and engraved 25 of these diagrams on sheets of recycled, offset brass, and printed them onto Moulin du Gue paper. I then exhibited the prints in a grid on the wall, opposite the a grid of the plates themselves, creating a mirror image of the prints, which are themselves, by nature, mirror images.
