#mris

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I've had multiple MRIs of my brain due to concerning symptoms, and each time the MRIs came back perfectly normal. So I believed the doctors who told me that my symptoms were medication-related, and thought I was fine.

Now it turns out that I have a serious illness that's often caused by a brain tumor in the front of the brain. Nobody ever told me that MRIs couldn't see the full brain, or that it was possible to have a normal MRI and still have a brain tumor.

Colorful paper art by Jen Stark

Jen Stark is an American artist who creates complex sculptures and animations using layers of paper, giving life to topographical landscapes of colors and shapes. Drawing inspiration from fractals, wormholes, MRIs and human anatomy, Jen Stark constructs new models of the universe, reinterpreting the elements of time, nature and the cosmos with cardboard and glue. Overlapping paper layers that create hypnotic spirals and kaleidoscopes.

His sculptures are made with mathematical coldness but reveal childish exuberance and curiosity. How to dissect a children’s book with surgical precision. Many of his works mimic the organic forms found in nature. The complexity of a flower’s petals, the regularity of a spider’s web, the order of tree rings. Macro and micro science, holograms and Rorschach tests. Inventions of paper, color and space-time continuum.