Elizabeth J. Jameson

This video was produced by filmmaker Cheryl Bowlan, who became fascinated with Ms. Jameson's use of medical technology in her paintings and etchings. The video explores Elizabeth's desire to use her own MRIs or brain scans in her art with the intent of increasing communication among brain scientists, physicians, students, and patients on issues involving the range of human emotions involved in chronic illness and disability.

From the National Multiple Sclerosis Society

Brains and Beauty: A "Public Interest Artist" Reimagines Her Life and Re-Images the MRI

When Elizabeth J. Jameson took a second career, she felt like she was cheating on her first one.

After 10 years representing incarcerated children and 15 teaching health law, the public interest lawyer was stifled by an MS exacerbation that produced the rare symptom of aphasia. She quit the law and took a community-college painting class as she relearned how to speak.

“I had a mad love affair with painting,” she said from her home and studio in Lafayette, Calif., near Berkeley. “I really felt guilty when I started painting more and more. I felt, ‘Am I being selfish? Am I wasting my training? I should be doing more civil rights advocacy.’”...

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