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Coffee brain

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Image of the Week #18, November 21, 2011:

From:Bleed Pretty Cells: interview with Michele Banks by Glendon Mellow at Symbiartic.


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Original source: Latte Brain, by Michele Banks, at Artologica on Etsy.

Science is, above all, a coffee-fueled enterprise. Artist Michele Banks captures the essence of the caffeine-driven mind with a series of ‘coffee brains’, painted in watercolors using actual coffee rings.