This drawing is about a thought, about a feeling, about what is happening between our neurons when we're thinking, feeling, dreaming. This is the bit of our brain, the nervous influx, this is the energy that makes us who we are as intelligent beings.
This painting is about the prenatal development of the brain under the influence of multiple genes. The lught in the brain I've paibted is in the area where there is the INAH 3 nucleous, the structure responsable for our sexual orientation. This structure can be masculinised or not during the prenatal period under the inflence of the genes involved in the androgens metabolism and the Xq28 gene. Without masculinisation this structure will remain in the default female stage and the individual will feel attracted to males.
I've made the oil on canvas painting above and the ball point pen drawing below this week. This is the tree of the mind, a pyramidal neuron in the neocortex. As I said before when we draw trees we draw our neurons and that's why the trees we draw tell so much about us. Somewhere deep in our mind we somehow know that the neurons have a tree shape.