Below are posted the drawings from my visit during June to the National Institute of Health. Rain or shine, for two days I was was gleefully and completely immersed in the activity of drawing.
Dawn Hunter, study of Ramón y Cajal's Calyx of Held scientific drawing, marker and pen on paper, 11" x 14"
Dawn Hunter, study of Ramón y Cajal's Growth Cone scientific drawing #2, marker and pen on paper, 11" x 14"
Dawn Hunter, study that juxtaposes Ramón y Cajal's Calyx of Held scientific drawing with the landscape, marker and pen on paper, 11" x 14"
Dawn Hunter, study of Ramón y Cajal's Growth Cone scientific drawing, marker and pen on paper, 11" x 14"
Dawn Hunter, study of Ramón y Cajal's Astrocytes drawing with Don Quixote, marker and pen on paper, 11" x 14"
Dawn Hunter, National of Institute of Health: Atrium of Building number 10, marker and pen on paper, 11" x 14"
Dawn Hunter, National of Institute of Health: view from the John Porter Neuroscience Center during the rain, marker and pen on paper, 11" x 14"
Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time were to sprout appendages like an ameba - outgrowths that extend in all directions while avoiding one obstacle after another - before interdigitating with related ideas.
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal