Split Personality

Broca’s Brain

A surprised and excited face peers out at the world with an expression of enthusiastic bewilderment, and with his brain all in a tizzy. His enthusiasm is nearly contagious!

From photographs of knots and scars in a Poplar tree trunk, a gnarled Ponderosa Pine root, a sandstone outcrop, and Desert Aloe intertwined with a Spider plant. Broca’s area of the brain is believed to be critical for speech production; it is named for the 19th century French physician Pierre Paul Broca, who found that patients with damage in the area of the brain’s frontal lobe had difficulty with speech and language. The perplexing fellow in this painting doesn’t seem to mind…

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