For Iranian neuroscientist and painter Haleh Fotowat, science, nature and art are intertwined. In her scientific research she studies neural and cellular mechanisms of animal behavior and how they can change with experience. Over the years she has studied the movement patterns of flies, locusts, fish, tadpoles, as well as primitive multicellular organisms extensively. She is especially fascinated by seemingly spontaneous decisions animals make as they move in space. Fotowat’s inspiration for her art is the unpredictability, urgency, continuity, beauty, humor, and enthusiasm in all life forms. Her drawings are spontaneous, liberated trajectories and shapes often made while listening to improvised jazz. She coaxes conversations among elements that emerge in her paintings as coherent life forms.