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For Brain Awareness Week 2021 (March 15–21), the Friedman Brain Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, NY, USA) invited its faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and staff to contribute to their Art of the Brain exhibition. Advanced technologies, such as electron microscopy, laser-based cellular imaging, and confocal microscopy, and techniques including 3D modelling, immunofluorescent staining, diffusion tractography, and fluorescence microscopy have contributed to this experience. Miss Your Face by Long Li used in-vivo gene delivery and confocal imaging on real brain slices, then computer software to heighten pseudocolour and crystallisation, producing a six-panel replication evocative of the pop-art genre, similar to Pop Brain by An-Li Wang and Chris Kudrich—the reward system activated in the brain in nine vibrant colour images.