Following Threads

A poem found in Science Alert in an article by Peter Dockrill

in paint-laden brushstrokes
fractal patterns trace
cognitive changes
like snowflakes
self-repeating
and replicating
in each work of art
analysing artists’ souls
following flimsy threads
of neurodegenerative decline

Kim M. Russell, 2016

Salvador Dali’s The Basket of Bread (1926) and The Swallow’s Tail (1983). Credit: Wikimedia