'SENSE' by Annie Cattrell
Transparent resin and rapid prototyped resin, 2001-03
This sequence of sculptures illustrates the activity patterns of
the human brain as it responds to the five senses: touch, smell,
sight, hearing and taste. Scans of a subject's brain using each of
the senses were produced with functional magnetic resonance
imaging. These scans were then converted into three-dimensional
physical structures of amber resin using a rapid-prototyping
process. The elegant simplicity of the sculptures belies the
complexity of the technology required to make them.