Magic Forest

Andrew Carnie: ‘This work tracks the development, proliferation and organisation of neurones in the growing brain. The colours in the work reflect the fluorescence used and seen in the staining of individual neurones, as seen under the microscope. The brain consists of millions of neurons, each a finely branching microscopic structure that reaches out for near and distant neighbours; they contribute to a distributed circuitry whose logic remains one of the greatest mysteries of biology. Structure and function are synonymous. Just as our concepts of neuro anatomy rely on sections of space, our ideas of how neurons grow come from snapshots in time.’