All the black Bunchems can be removed, allowing the interactive piece to return to a “healthy, colourful, symmetrical state,” Jackson’s project profile states. Inspired by New York City’s Fabergé Big Egg Hunt, the broader project is the brainchild of Noah’s Godfrey’s wife, Erica. His lifelong infatuation with robots, spaceships “and anything related to futuristic modes of transportation” drew him to Duplo-esque art, his profile states. Called Concussion, this laser-cut artwork is inspired by the use of scans to visualize the brain as a diagram. With Alzheimer’s and dementia, which hinder thinking and memory, “the signposts that help us navigate our life are irreversibly reduced to an abstraction and eventually disappear.”

Source: thestar June 15, 2016 02:06 UTC