Imaginings
Each piece: 1.19m x 0.84.m
Embryonic thoughts and ideas emerging in the mind; yet to be fully formed, suspended in an ambiguous 'in-between' state. Where do ideas come from and how do they develop in the brain? What are the links between direct experience, visual imagination and invention?
Each piece: 1.19m x 0.84.m
Embryonic thoughts and ideas emerging in the mind; yet to be fully formed, suspended in an ambiguous 'in-between' state. Where do ideas come from and how do they develop in the brain? What are the links between direct experience, visual imagination and invention?
Sea of Stories
Ink. Inspired by 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories'. (6 of 12 drawings)
"He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one different currents, each one a different colour, weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity; and Iff explained that these were the Streams of Story, that each coloured strand represented and contained a single tale." Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (London: Granta Books, 1990)
Metacognition (Series 2 of 6): The Default Mode Network
Internal Dialogue/Default Mode Network
Thought on Paper (Series 1 of 6)
Sumi ink applied to selected threads of cotton in japanese paper. Thousands of threads exist within this one sheet yet this one particular pattern was highlighted. This work explores the idea that the human brain's neurons are constantly interconnecting and that each thought fires one of billions of possible neural connections.
'Naturae Contra Machina'. 30cm x 30cm. One of a growing series of drawings about the dialogue between objects in my studio