WAIT. WHAT IS THAT?! | Rachel Mindrup
© Wait, What is That? Rachel Mindrup. Monotypes
I painted and printed these monotypes while scrolling through my son's MRI scans. I realized there are so many blobs and bright spots that I don't really know what structures they are and if they are supposed to be there. I did discover we all have a little skull face image that appears briefly when scrolling through the MRI scan. It was startling to be looking for any new brain tumors and see a skull!
Rachel Mindrup is an assistant professor of drawing and painting and the Richard L. Deming, MD Endowed Chair in Medical Humanities at Creighton University. She received her MFA from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. Her current painting practice is about the study of the figure and portraiture in art and its relation to medicine, healing and identity. Her son's diagnosis has been the motivation behind her series of portraits "Many Faces of Neurofibromatosis (NF)" as well as the work she does in response to his various procedures and surgeries.
