“Hybrid Brain”

Artist: Erisa Davoudi, Department of Neuroscience, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University; Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University.

This painting illustrates an individual's brain who tried to push all of their cultural origins to one side of the brain (the right hemisphere used to be known as the artistic and emotional hemisphere), deny them and lock them up. I used a design consisting of a Paisley pattern of Persia origin, which represents all the cultures and memories of the one's background. Although the person thought their left hemisphere ( considered logical) is being separated from their cultural part, the brain has its way of communicating throughout the Corpus Callosum. So no matter how much you try to forget and suppress your past, eventually, it will find a way to your awareness. I aimed to give this message that the world is beautiful with its diversity and different colours (as the Paisleys are in the painting), and no one should be ashamed of their cultural background.