John Bavaro’s series, BrainTree, is based on a serious stroke he experienced in 2012. Early in his recovery he had no speech and his arm was severely compromised. A year later he created this body of work based on MRI scans of his brain and carotid artery.
Using an iPad, Bavaro creates digitally enhanced images from his brain scans, and layers them with Images of trees growth he has built in an app called “TreeSketch”

“I realized that the growth parameters, the tropism, and gravitropism of the tree, behaves like the physiology of the human brain. It parallels it in many ways. The branches that the brain takes, directly parallels the growth pattern of a tree. I was struck by the metaphor of re-wiring, or re-growth of connections that had died and now needed to be rewired.”