JB: The palette you use is bright, saturated, and powerful—reminiscent of color field paintings. What lies
behind your artistic process of coloring the brain—is
it purely aesthetic and formal, or is there something
more?
EJ: I use color to provoke an emotional response to images celebrating the imperfect and
beautiful brain. My formal education at California College of the Arts grounded my understanding of color theory and composition, but
I rarely create work that is intended to directly
address color relationships as a subject of the
piece. Just as musicians with technical training do not play a song solely to demonstrate
the progression of a scale, I play with color as
a foundation for evocative and bold emotional
effect.
My inclination to saturate my compositions
with rich color comes from the desire to create images that will give viewers access to the
vibrancy of my internal self—something that is
not immediately apparent, given the impact of
disease on my physical existence. Reclaiming
my MRI images through printmaking, color,
and the elements of design distracts from the
unsightliness of bra [