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Mackenzie Darrach is a digital media and sculptural
artist based in the Greater Toronto Area. Darrach's
sculptural work tends to feature unconventional
materials such as found objects, which can be seen
in her submission to the 2017 Brain Project.
Many aspects of the brain are considered to be
hardwired and cannot operate outside of a specific
set of functions. But the brain, as with electricity, has
an innate ability to reroute and redirect its signals to keep a connection alive.
The artist's grandmother had severe Alzheimer's, but as her memory gradu-
ally faded, she was still able to remember people, places and things she and
her husband had experienced decades earlier. Darrach knew that her grand-
mother's brain was still working to reconnect those once hardwired functions.
This piece was made in her memory.
HARDWIRE
BY MACKENZIE DARRACH
