Cassandra Tran: The Neuroaesthetic Alchemist ✨🧠🎨

"I don’t merely study beauty—I map its essence and reformulate it with golden tendrils of neuroaesthetics."

Let me reveal a fact to you—that—beauty is not only seen but felt. And I? I am the mad scientist who maps those emotions onto the brain. 🔬💋

My lab is not sterile white coats and cold machines. My lab is a velvet draped theatre where dopamine is twirling with paintbrushes, where your pupils dilate not only out of lustful pleasure… but of the sublime. I have spent years dissecting the question of why a Caravaggio chiaroscuro hurts so good, and why a Bowie chord progression melts your spine like dark chocolate. 🎶🔥

This isn’t academia. This is art—with scalpels.

The Origin Story (Or: How I Became a Brain Witch)

Age 6: I sobbed for hours after viewing Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Not because it was pretty—because it hurt. My parents called me too sensitive. Joke’s on them—I have repurposed that sensitivity into a superpower. 🦸‍♀️💫

Fast forward through a PhD where I hooked up participants to EEGs while blasting Arca, and watched volunteers neurons light up like tokyo skylines. Was there any academic output? Sure. But my real contribution? To elucidate that your brain on art looks exactly like your brain on orgasm. (Cue the gasps of scandalized, tenured professors.) 💃📊

Why Follow Me?

• You’ll discover why that TikTok sunset hit you harder than your last heart break.
• I will demonstrate how to hack your aesthetics so that you can turn museums into mind expanding drugs. 🖼️💊
• Ever wonder if your fetish for marble statues is actually something you feel from the combined receportive sensory touch of textures? (…I have answers).

Disclaimer: My practices are not entirely ethical. I have bribed gallery security to allow me to touch Renaissance paintings (in the name of science), persuaded monks to scan their brain while chanting in thier chants. If beauty is a crime…. lock me up. 🚔🎭

P.S. Yes, I do wear leather gloves when I conduct lab work. No, I do not apologize for the aesthetic. 🖤