by Jeffrey M Levine | Jul 3, 2012
Since I started blogging about art and medicine, I’ve been going back into my files to find projects that were started years ago and forgotten. Some were never completed and others were discarded. Many were shelved, never to see the light of day. The internet has...
by Jeffrey M Levine | May 16, 2012
Kyrgyzstan has been independent for over two decades, but I saw many signs of the communist regime on major streets and back roads. Grim Soviet-style war memorials are regular roadside features. The massive statue of Lenin, once at the center of a main square in the...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Mar 14, 2012
In November 2011 I traveled to India to photograph and spent nearly two weeks there. My highlight was a city called Benares. Each day at dawn I went to the riverbanks, also called Ghats, and returned with hours of video. I edited the best clips together to recreate...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Feb 13, 2012
In June of 2012 I went to Bolivia to celebrate the winter solstice with the shamans. This day is considered the Aymara new year, an astronomical event with ancestral trditions that go back thousands of years. I was staying in the town of Chinchana on the Isla del Sol...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Jan 3, 2012
This past summer I returned to South America to photograph aging, and one of these photos is featured on the December cover of The Gerontologist. This is the flagship journal of the Gerontological Society of America. I am often asked about my “TG” cover...
by Jeffrey M Levine | Dec 12, 2011
In my journey expoloring both medicine and art, I’ve thought a lot about the neurobiology of creativity. The corpus callosum is the thick bundle of 200 million nerve fibers that forms the communication network between the left brain and right brain. The left brain is...
