The frothy turbulence of breaking surf—captured at the moment it is reabsorbed into the sea—possesses an ethereal, otherworldly quality. Stripped of shoreline or horizon, these white filaments of motion mirror the stained pyramidal neurons of the human brain, the very structures that map our response to stress and disease.
The Neuroanatomy of Water explores the kinship of microscopic neurons of the brain to the frothy breaking surf and the means by which rhythmic patterns of the ocean as a restorative balm for the spirit and a much-needed breath of stillness in a world of mounting discord.