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{"id":13072,"date":"2017-11-14T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=13072"},"modified":"2024-07-29T11:09:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T15:09:41","slug":"drawn-to-drawn-from-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/11\/14\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawn To, Drawn From Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Circulating Now<em> welcomes guest blogger <a href=\"https:\/\/dawnhunterart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dawn Hunter<\/a>, Associate Professor, School of Visual Art and Design, University of South Carolina and Fulbright Espa\u00f1a Senior Research Fellow at the Instituto Cajal in Madrid, Spain. Her new body of work is a suite of biographical drawings and paintings about Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal, the father of modern neuroscience. \u00a0Her series is comprised of creative works and formal investigations of Cajal’s scientific drawings that are <a href=\"https:\/\/nihrecord.nih.gov\/sites\/nihrecord\/files\/pdf\/2014\/NIH-Record-2014-12-05.pdf\">currently on display<\/a> at the John Porter Neuroscience Research Center at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every great drawing\u2014even if it is of a hand or the back of a torso, forms perceived thousands of times before\u2014is like the map of a newly discovered island.\u00a0 Only it is far easier to read a drawing than a map; in front of a drawing it is the five senses that make a surveyor.”<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">\u2014John Berger from<em> A Painter of Our Time<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The wholly integrated experience of phenomena is powerful.\u00a0 The union of the mind’s curiosity, the heart’s passion, and the body’s senses sing a chorus that reminds us of the wonder of our own existence.\u00a0 The U.S. 2017 solar eclipse was that experience for many.\u00a0 However, it was also predictable.\u00a0 Sitting on the front steps of my home in South Carolina, steeped in the avalanche of media coverage, I experienced the path of totality only with my mind; my brain perfectly primed with expectations.\u00a0 The forecast sound bites focused the quality of celestial delivery, and by doing so reduced the universe to a branded experience.\u00a0 It may sound like I am complaining, but I am not.\u00a0 The obstacle of mediated experience served as a reminder to value those encounters when I experience the extraordinary, nonaligned, for myself.\u00a0 While ignorance is not bliss, on rare occasions, it can be a blessing\u2014allowing new, unexpected experience of phenomena to rival the first time one bit into a luscious strawberry or walked across hot sand.\u00a0 Encountering Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal\u2019s scientific drawings of the nervous system for the first time was one such extraordinary experience for me.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13081\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13081\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/11_dawn-hunter_surreal-portrait-of-cajal.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13081\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/11\/14\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\/11_dawn-hunter_surreal-portrait-of-cajal\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/11_dawn-hunter_surreal-portrait-of-cajal.jpg?fit=2812%2C1118&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2812,1118\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"CanoScan 8800F","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1437665982","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Surreal Portrait of Cajal\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Dawn Hunter, Surreal portrait of Cajal, pen, marker and ink on paper, 5.5\u201d x 13\u201d from my handmade sketchbook<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/11_dawn-hunter_surreal-portrait-of-cajal.jpg?fit=300%2C119&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/11_dawn-hunter_surreal-portrait-of-cajal.jpg?fit=840%2C334&ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-13081 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/11_dawn-hunter_surreal-portrait-of-cajal.jpg?resize=840%2C334&ssl=1\" alt=\"An abstract, surreal drawing including a silhouette head with brain, neurons, and medical imagery.\" width=\"840\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawn Hunter, Surreal portrait of Cajal, pen, marker and ink on paper, 5.5\u201d x 13\u201d from my handmade sketchbook, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am an artist, and I draw every day.\u00a0 It is how I know and understand the world.\u00a0 One day back in 2012, I was looking up neuroscience terminology to supplement an article I was reading on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1569501\/\">claustrum<\/a>, I stumbled across Cajal’s scientific drawings.\u00a0 In the midst of trawling visuals on the web, I was swept away within “gesturely expressive” cellular images drawn in implied space.\u00a0 I was dwarfed and transported into Cajal’s microscopic world.\u00a0 Other <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/brainwaves\/know-your-neurons-the-discovery-and-naming-of-the-neuron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">neuroscience<\/a> drawings were in the image cache, like those of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/44081\/title\/The-First-Neuron-Drawings--1870s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camillo Golgi<\/a>.\u00a0 However, I was not as taken with them, because Golgi’s illustrations were surrounded by a border that created closure and containment and possessed a topographical mannerism.\u00a0 Based on those visual qualities, I felt Golgi’s drawings were “designed,” and that construction revealed a particular point of view regarding the role of drawing in his work:\u00a0 that drawing was a vehicle to guide, transcribe, and organize nature in a manner that demonstrated a theory.\u00a0 Instead of creating drawing from a designer\u2019s perspective, Cajal’s work in comparison is drawn with a type of perceptual observation, one in which the inherent design of nature is discovered through sighting.\u00a0 Drawing was a tool to observe, discern and recount microanatomy structure.\u00a0 Cajal’s drawings are filled with actual lines and drawn with implied space.\u00a0 I believe they demonstrate a philosophy that he was at the service of nature\u2014recording and reporting the truthfulness of sight\u2019s journey.<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\\\/2017\\\/11\\\/14\\\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\\\/\"}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-13072 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/11\/14\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\/0-r\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/4_cajal_s-scientific-drawing-of-pyramidal-neurons.jpg?fit=239%2C300&ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Black lines form an organic network like tree roots that extends off the page.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13073\" data-attachment-id=\"13073\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/11\/14\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\/0-r\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/4_cajal_s-scientific-drawing-of-pyramidal-neurons.jpg?fit=612%2C769&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"612,769\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"0 R","caption":"0 R","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"0 R","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Cajal’s Drawing of Pyramidal Neurons\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Cajal’s Drawing of Pyramidal Neurons, n.d.<br \/>\nCourtesy of the Legado Cajal at the Insituto Cajal<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/4_cajal_s-scientific-drawing-of-pyramidal-neurons.jpg?fit=239%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/4_cajal_s-scientific-drawing-of-pyramidal-neurons.jpg?fit=612%2C769&ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13073'>\n\t\t\t\tCajal’s Drawing of Pyramidal Neurons, n.d.\nCourtesy of the Legado Cajal at the Insituto Cajal\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/11\/14\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\/8_dawn-hunter_cajal-and-golgi_from-cajal-inventory\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/8_dawn-hunter_cajal-and-golgi_from-cajal-inventory.jpg?fit=250%2C300&ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"A building like structure inscribed with nerve anatomy seen from between large leafed branches on the bottom and feathery leaved branches on the top.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13083\" data-attachment-id=\"13083\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/11\/14\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\/8_dawn-hunter_cajal-and-golgi_from-cajal-inventory\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/8_dawn-hunter_cajal-and-golgi_from-cajal-inventory.jpg?fit=1706%2C2048&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1706,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"Perfection V350","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Cajal and Golgi, 2015\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Dawn Hunter, Cajal and Golgi juxtaposed against Cajal\u2019s drawing of their opposing theses, acrylic and ink on paper, 11\u201d x 14\u201d, 2015<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/8_dawn-hunter_cajal-and-golgi_from-cajal-inventory.jpg?fit=250%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/8_dawn-hunter_cajal-and-golgi_from-cajal-inventory.jpg?fit=840%2C1008&ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13083'>\n\t\t\t\tDawn Hunter, Cajal and Golgi juxtaposed against Cajal\u2019s drawing of their opposing theses, acrylic and ink on paper, 11\u201d x 14\u201d, 2015\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/11\/14\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\/5_golgi_s-scientific-drawing-of-pyramidal-neurons\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/5_golgi_s-scientific-drawing-of-pyramidal-neurons.jpg?fit=223%2C300&ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Black orderly treelike networks arranged virtically within the page on a yellow background.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-13074\" data-attachment-id=\"13074\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/11\/14\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\/5_golgi_s-scientific-drawing-of-pyramidal-neurons\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/5_golgi_s-scientific-drawing-of-pyramidal-neurons.jpg?fit=409%2C549&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"409,549\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1508225089","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Golgi’s Drawing of Pyramidal Neurons\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Golgi’s Drawing of Pyramidal Neurons, 1885<br \/>\nCourtesy of Museo Golgi, University of Pavia<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/5_golgi_s-scientific-drawing-of-pyramidal-neurons.jpg?fit=223%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/5_golgi_s-scientific-drawing-of-pyramidal-neurons.jpg?fit=409%2C549&ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-13074'>\n\t\t\t\tGolgi’s Drawing of Pyramidal Neurons, 1885\nCourtesy of Museo Golgi, University of Pavia\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_13077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13077\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1_portrait-of-cajal.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13077\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/11\/14\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\/1_portrait-of-cajal\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1_portrait-of-cajal.jpg?fit=280%2C396&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"280,396\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"Portrait of Cajal\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal, ca. 1906<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1_portrait-of-cajal.jpg?fit=212%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1_portrait-of-cajal.jpg?fit=280%2C396&ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13077\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1_portrait-of-cajal.jpg?resize=212%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"A photographic portrait in profile, of a middle aged man in a full beard.\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal, ca. 1906<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Intrigued and invigorated, I felt an urgent need to learn more.\u00a0 I pursued my interest in Cajal without any foreknowledge of his monumental identity within modern neuroscience.\u00a0 I quickly learned the basics:\u00a0 Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal (May 1, 1852 \u2013 October 17, 1934) was a Spanish histologist and the first person to demonstrate that the nervous system was made up of individual units (neurons) that were independent of one another but linked together at points of functional contact called synapses.\u00a0 Cajal was a 1906 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine awarded jointly to another neuroscientist, Camillo Golgi “in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system,\u201d however, their research was mutually exclusive and embraced opposing theses.\u00a0 Cajal used and later refined a silver staining technique developed initially by Golgi to see the structure of neurons.\u00a0 He illustrated the results of his studies with elegant drawings of the neurons that he proposed worked independently or collectively, each individual unit participating simultaneously in individual or multiple neuron functions.\u00a0 Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal is considered by many to be the father of modern neuroscience.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13076\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13076\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/self-portrait-of-cajal-as-a-bodybuilder.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13076\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/11\/14\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\/self-portrait-of-cajal-as-a-bodybuilder\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/self-portrait-of-cajal-as-a-bodybuilder.jpg?fit=469%2C725&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"469,725\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Self-portrait of Cajal as a bodybuilder\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/self-portrait-of-cajal-as-a-bodybuilder.jpg?fit=194%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/self-portrait-of-cajal-as-a-bodybuilder.jpg?fit=469%2C725&ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-13076 size-medium\" title=\"Ram\u00f3n y Cajal, 1871\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/self-portrait-of-cajal-as-a-bodybuilder.jpg?resize=194%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"Half-tone photograph of a muscular young man posing with no shirt.\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ram\u00f3n y Cajal, 1871<br \/>In <em>Recuerdos de Mi Vida<\/em>, 1923<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From the beginning, Cajal has made me laugh because I began \u201cknowing him\u201d by reading his science fiction writing, <em>Vacation Stories<\/em>, published under the pseudonym, Dr. Bacteria.\u00a0 Anyone with that pseudonym has a great sense of humor, right?\u00a0 It framed my perception of the <em>Vacation Stories<\/em> as sublimation for personal and professional frustrations while being intentionally campy.\u00a0 Cajal\u2019s psychological complexity revealed itself when I read his memoir <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.nlm.nih.gov\/permalink\/01NLM_INST\/1o1phhn\/alma993899193406676\"><em>Recollections of My Life<\/em><\/a>. As I perceive it, the autobiography was written with unguarded honesty, and the breadth of content he shared about himself and his research captivated me.\u00a0I was particularly struck at times with his humor.\u00a0 Like the devotion of three highly descriptive paragraphs letting the reader know that not only was he very physically fit and muscular in his bodybuilding \u201cselfie\u201d photo published in the book shot at age nineteen, but that in real life he was bigger and more defined than the photo captures.\u00a0 His autobiography also touched my heart, especially when he shared the hardships of his boarding school days and the level to which his particular learning style was misunderstood.\u00a0 Cajal, an experience based learner, was unable to conform to the educational standards and had great difficulty learning from the method that required memorization and repetition of large amounts of information.\u00a0 He was rebellious, and his teachers were intolerant and unleashed extreme and harsh punishments that were physical and psychological assaults.<\/p>\n<p>Childhood hardships did not diminish Cajal’s innate pioneering spirit, a temperament that may have been spurred by a formative experience at the age of eight.\u00a0 On July 18, 1860, Cajal witnessed the totality of a solar eclipse and the excitement surrounding <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/09\/01\/total-eclipse-of-the-sun\/\">Warren de la Rue<\/a>\u2019s arrival in Spain to record the moment of totality for the first time in history with photography.\u00a0 The occasion inspired a lifelong appreciation of astronomy in Cajal.\u00a0 Many have speculated over the years that this was the seminal event that planted the seeds of his scientific rigor.\u00a0 The eclipse totality dwarfed Cajal in the universe and provided a new context for his existence.\u00a0 Judging from the intensity, directness, and wonder of his drawings, it was a context he never left.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13082\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10_dawn-hunter_cajal-on-may-day.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13082\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/11\/14\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\/10_dawn-hunter_cajal-on-may-day\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10_dawn-hunter_cajal-on-may-day.jpg?fit=2792%2C1126&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2792,1126\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"CanoScan 8800F","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1430915325","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Cajal on May Day\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Dawn Hunter, Cajal on May Day, pen and ink on paper, 5.5\u201d x 13\u201d from my handmade sketchbook<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10_dawn-hunter_cajal-on-may-day.jpg?fit=300%2C121&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10_dawn-hunter_cajal-on-may-day.jpg?fit=840%2C339&ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-13082 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10_dawn-hunter_cajal-on-may-day.jpg?resize=840%2C339&ssl=1\" alt=\"A landscape with castle like buidlings and a head in profile with anatomical overlay.\" width=\"840\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawn Hunter, Cajal on May Day, pen and ink on paper, 5.5\u201d x 13\u201d from my handmade sketchbook, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By proxy, with those seeds firmly sewn in me, my fascination has grown into a comprehensive visual art project about him titled <em>“Aesthetic Instincts: the Intersection of Art and Science in the life of Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal.” <\/em>\u00a0I have developed theses about him and inform my project with primary source material.\u00a0 As a Fulbright Espa\u00f1a Senior Research Fellow at the Instituto Cajal in Madrid, Spain, I am currently researching the archives of the Legacy of Cajal.\u00a0 After I read his autobiography,\u00a0<em>Recollections of My Life<\/em>\u00a0a part of me that felt like some key aspects of Cajal (his humor, and how he imagined himself\u2014particularly in his youth) were absent from the mainstream discourse patterns about him.\u00a0 I view my drawings and paintings as educational tools that address art, history, and neuroscience and that splice and fuse his animated neurons, with representations of biographical elements, fictional narratives, and surrealism.\u00a0 My artwork highlights his personality traits\u00a0and his private value system essential to his unique scientific insight that led to his great discovery:\u00a0 that the nervous system is\u00a0comprised of individual, independent biological units, i.e. neurons.<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\\\/2017\\\/11\\\/14\\\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\\\/\"}' id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-13072 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/11\/14\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\/7_dawn-hunter_cajal-as-bodybuilder-with-retina-drawing_from-cajal-inventory\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/7_dawn-hunter_cajal-as-bodybuilder-with-retina-drawing_from-cajal-inventory.jpg?fit=235%2C300&ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"A composition based on a portrait of Cajal as a young man and one of his medical illustrations.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-13084\" data-attachment-id=\"13084\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/11\/14\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\/7_dawn-hunter_cajal-as-bodybuilder-with-retina-drawing_from-cajal-inventory\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/7_dawn-hunter_cajal-as-bodybuilder-with-retina-drawing_from-cajal-inventory.jpg?fit=1607%2C2048&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1607,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"Expression 10000XL","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Cajal as bodybuilder with retina drawing\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Dawn Hunter, Cajal as Bodybuilder juxtaposed against a retina drawing, pen, marker and ink on paper, 11\u201d x 14\u201d, 2016<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/7_dawn-hunter_cajal-as-bodybuilder-with-retina-drawing_from-cajal-inventory.jpg?fit=235%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/7_dawn-hunter_cajal-as-bodybuilder-with-retina-drawing_from-cajal-inventory.jpg?fit=804%2C1024&ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-13084'>\n\t\t\t\tDawn Hunter, Cajal as Bodybuilder juxtaposed against a retina drawing, pen, marker and ink on paper, 11\u201d x 14\u201d, 2016\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/11\/14\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\/12_dawn-hunter_s-study-of_intestinal-villi_interstitial-cells-of-cajal\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/12_dawn-hunter_s-study-of_intestinal-villi_interstitial-cells-of-cajal.jpg?fit=234%2C300&ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"A drawing of a drawing of nerve anatomy in soft colors.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-13087\" data-attachment-id=\"13087\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/11\/14\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\/12_dawn-hunter_s-study-of_intestinal-villi_interstitial-cells-of-cajal\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/12_dawn-hunter_s-study-of_intestinal-villi_interstitial-cells-of-cajal.jpg?fit=1596%2C2048&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1596,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"Expression 10000XL","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Study of Intestinal Villi Interstitial Cells of Cajal\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Dawn Hunter\u2019s study of Cajal\u2019s Intestinal Villi &amp; Interstitial Cells, 11\u201d x 14\u201d, 2017 \u2013 this drawing of Cajal\u2019s is currently on display at the John Porter Neuroscience Center of the NIH<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/12_dawn-hunter_s-study-of_intestinal-villi_interstitial-cells-of-cajal.jpg?fit=234%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/12_dawn-hunter_s-study-of_intestinal-villi_interstitial-cells-of-cajal.jpg?fit=798%2C1024&ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-13087'>\n\t\t\t\tDawn Hunter\u2019s study of Cajal\u2019s Intestinal Villi & Interstitial Cells, 11\u201d x 14\u201d, 2017 \u2013 this drawing of Cajal\u2019s is currently on display at the John Porter Neuroscience Center of the NIH\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/11\/14\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\/9_dawn-hunter_s-study-of-the_cerebellum_from-cajal-inventory\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/9_dawn-hunter_s-study-of-the_cerebellum_from-cajal-inventory.jpg?fit=236%2C300&ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"A drawing of a drawing of nerve anatomy.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-13085\" data-attachment-id=\"13085\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/11\/14\/drawn-to-drawn-from-experience\/9_dawn-hunter_s-study-of-the_cerebellum_from-cajal-inventory\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/9_dawn-hunter_s-study-of-the_cerebellum_from-cajal-inventory.jpg?fit=1609%2C2048&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1609,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"Expression 10000XL","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Study of the Cerebellum\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Dawn Hunter\u2019s study of Cajal\u2019s cerebellum drawing, pen, ink and marker on paper, 11\u201d x 14\u201d, 2016 \u2013 this drawing of Cajal\u2019s was part of the first exhibit of Cajal\u2019s work at the John Porter Neuroscience Center of the NIH<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/9_dawn-hunter_s-study-of-the_cerebellum_from-cajal-inventory.jpg?fit=236%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/9_dawn-hunter_s-study-of-the_cerebellum_from-cajal-inventory.jpg?fit=805%2C1024&ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-13085'>\n\t\t\t\tDawn Hunter\u2019s study of Cajal\u2019s cerebellum drawing, pen, ink and marker on paper, 11\u201d x 14\u201d, 2016 \u2013 this drawing of Cajal\u2019s was part of the first exhibit of Cajal\u2019s work at the John Porter Neuroscience Center of the NIH\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Because of his complexity as a person and scientist, getting to know Cajal requires investment.\u00a0 Those who take the time are often, like me, completely enthralled, enchanted and transformed by the phenomenological journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Dawn Hunter, Associate Professor, School of Visual Art and Design, University of South Carolina 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