The Artist's Piece of Meat (click for full image)This is an accurate representation of my brain, cast in aluminum and skewered by a meat hook (the meat hook does not exist in my actual brain). I reconstructed my the outer surface of my cortex from structural MRI images using FreeSurfer, then printed out the resulting three dimensional surface mesh on a ZCorp rapid prototyper. I made a silicone mold of this, then a wax cast from that, invested the wax cast in ceramic, and finally cast the brain in aluminum (with the meat hook already embedded).