From ArtTech series- The work is titled "I thought I could live forever", an oil painting based on actual brain signals from a Rat during the last 60 seconds of his life. This was a part of the artist's PhD research on investigating the anti-depressive effects of drugs and electrical stimulation in the brain. For this work, the original data was collected using a hair-sized carbon sensor implanted in the animal's brain. A 3D representation of the sensing readouts from dopamine activities produced and then the artist transformed the highly technical experiment into an oil painting. The color intensity indicates the amplitude of the recorded neurochemical activities in the rat's brain. In other words, every color and every shade may represent some thoughts and expressions the Rat went through over his last 60 second.
