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The Blue Brain Project is a Swiss brain research initiative led by its founder and director, Professor Henry Markram.
Its goal is, within simulation neuroscience, to understand the brain, by building the first biologically detailed digital reconstructions and simulations of the mouse brain.
A study developed within the framework of the Blue Brain project, published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, discovered that neurons form geometric structures of up to 11 dimensions to process information and that these structures suddenly disappear once a decision is made.
The work provided us with the first geometric conception of the way in which information is processed in the brain, as explained by the authors of the research.
The scientists detailed that multidimensional geometric bodies are formed when a group of neurons groups together to respond to an external stimulus. In this way, each neuron connects to the others in a specific way that generates a geometrically precise object. The more neurons there are grouped together, the greater dimensions the geometric object has.
With this idea, I have focused on the corrupted gladiolus bulbs, since I am inspired by everyday details and from there I draw my artistic interpretation.
In this case, I wanted to represent through these photographs in La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos the geometric figures of the brain’s neurons, represented, for the occasion, through this artistic interpretation of gladiolus bulbs.
This inspiration came to me contemplating the compost of organic matter in the gardens of the Pedralbes monastery in Barcelona. I saw that there were some gladioli bulbs. I looked at its tissue and this was the starting point to photographically interpret this geometry of the brain’s neurons, which the Blue Brain Project researchers described.
Geometric figures are created in our brain when we make decisions and I wanted to stage them artistically with these photographs of gladiolus bulbs. The small details of life are full of magic and help us create other realities.
