The artist decided to join The Brain Project because dementia is present in his immediate environment. By participating in the project, he hopes to contribute and support research on brain disease at Baycrest. He used the rusty hammer heads in his sculpture as a metaphor for the human brain. Over the years, the iron hammer head develops a layered structure of corrosion products, which continue to generate all over the areas – comparable to Alzheimer’s and dementia, a progressive degenerative disease of the brain, in which thinking and memory become seriously impaired.

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