Ten Artists with Abilities Born of Brain Damage

Posted by Miss Cellania in Arts & Crafts on July 14, 2009 at 2:27 pm

Sometimes talent is sparked, or maybe just revealed, in the strangest ways.

Imagine having a stroke, a severe brain injury or a tumor and suddenly waking up one day to find you’ve developed artistic talents to rival Picasso. It sounds impossible, but the brain is a mysterious organ, and sometimes, damage causes it to rewire itself in ways that reveal new talents even in people who could barely doodle a stick figure. From the engineer on disability who became a sought-after digital artist after a stroke to a woman whose dementia spurred remarkable creative output, these 10 artists were all transformed by neurological trauma or disorders.

Pictured is Alison Silva, who chose not to have a brain tumor removed because it improved her painting talent. Link -via Buzzfeed

 
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Crushingly Beautiful Egg Shell Art

Posted by Jill Harness in Arts & Crafts, Everything Else, Food & Drinks, Pictures on February 26, 2009 at 1:53 am

This egg shell art is truly stunning. InventorSpot has more pictures of these lovely, detailed art pieces by artist Ron Cheruka.

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Crochet Coral Reef

Posted by Jill Harness in Arts & Crafts, Everything Else, Travel & Places on January 13, 2009 at 10:42 pm

This crochet coral reef is amazing. It’s actually an attempted replica of the Great Barrier Reef. The variety of textures and colors is as full as those in the reef itself. It took years to make, which can be easily recognized just by the look of it.

“Vast in scale, collective in construction, exquisitely detailed, the Crochet Reef is an unprecedented, hybridic, handicraft invocation of a natural wonder that has become, in itself, a new kind of wonder spawned from tens of thousands of hours of labor.”

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