EXCESSIVE SYNCHRONICITY: Combating the Synaptic Monoculture of the Parkinsonian Brain
Commissioned to create a painting visualizing potential renegade research avenues, novel arenas of physiological inquiry and speculative medical hypotheses, in discovering an ultimate cure for Parkinson’s disease, by the Founder and CEO of R&D Neuroscience nonprofit, Neurothesis, in Brisbane, Australia, Julie Rauer, Co-Founder of ART SCIENCE COMPLEX, invented and layered several metaphorical clusters to manifest the horrific menagerie of successively degenerative presentations of Parkinson’s disease, as structural and functional scourge—the existential perils of monoculture versus polyculture in plant science; symphonic classical music metaphor quantifying gravely deleterious martinet neuronal signaling, via rudimentary brass instruments without valves or other cognitively nimble pitch-altering devices, constrained in their abilities to manifest layered aural colors and textures, in comparison with complex textures and harmonic capabilities of valved brass instruments, as the adaptive neuroplasticity marking healthy brain function; deliberately induced visions of Indian Sadhus as metaphor for the tragically altered perceptions, hallucinations and “facial masking” consistent with third stage Parkinson’s disease—composed to visualize both the surreally terrifying psychological landscape and neurobiological intricacies roiling within the resplendent beauty of synaptic architecture.