blobs & interblobs — molly schulman

Blobs & Interblobs

2014

I started making this series after reading about Margaret Wong-Riley who discovered Blobs and Interblobs when studying the visual cortex. Blobs are sensitive to color and Interblobs to movement. I appreciated Wong-Riley’s inclination to describe something as widely studied and complex as the visual cortex with such unsophisticated language.

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