Trees like synaptic structures...
'Geinrust Farm in Watery Landscape' (1905) by Piet Mondrian instagram.com/p/CA48xt6nJQ3/
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E. O. Wilson—legendary American biologist & Lord of the Ants—was intrigued by PM's early landscapes, where 'the spacing of the tree trunks seems intuitively right, the redundancy in the canopy lacework is close to what modern EEG monitoring suggests is most arousing to the brain'
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Purkinje neurons from the human cerebellum as drawn around 1900 by Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934)
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Ten years later... Mondrian's 'Farm near Duivendrecht' (1916)
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Mi hai evocato una frase di Hesse, di cui non conosco, purtroppo, la versione originale, tratta da "Il canto degli alberi": "L'intrico di sogni di un poeta più sottile non può ramificarsi".
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