Exhibition No. 4 – oil, palladium, and gold leaf on canvas. 2020.28″ x 60″ / $55,000
An artist’s interpretation of the complex (and partly still mysterious) workings of the human conscious and unconscious processes. Frontier neuropsychoanalysis and brain science have established a new vocabulary: BrainMind, which indicates the unity of these formerly separately discussed physical and non-physical aspects of our exclusive existence.
In this pictorial interpretation, the human head is projected into the cosmic context. Overcoming historical limitations (represented by the dark, starry rectangle), the human spirit surges forward to probe deeper and further into the inner and outer universes, which have not yet disclosed any limitations.
The broad, silver-shining surroundings serve as a metaphor for time, space, and dimension.
| Note to the creative process for [4] The Coming of the Cosmic BrainMind Out of “nowhere” comes a head in profile – and turns into a contemplation about our amazing human brain and mind |
It started out of sheer boredom, and I asked for paper and pencil
A whimsical, playful line, leading to a pencil drawing of an accentuated profile that was dominated by a protruding nose.
No story, no scene, just a kind of human face (in profile).
The mind was on the rich facets, all embraced in one human brain, and contemplation about science trying to observe, categorize, interpret, and understand so many specialties of the brain and mind.
The brain is what can be described in its anatomy; the mind is what results in thinking, saying, feeling, and acting of a human being.
Brain and Mind are uncompromisingly interwoven, inseparable, but how and much and where (in the locality of the brain) is still in the turmoil of scientific research, discussion, definition, and understanding. Nobody has yet been able to “photograph a thought.”
The image is an absolutely artistic fantasy about a much less fantastic array of specializations inside that overwhelmingly multitalented organ “Brain.”Like a children’s book illustration, the aim is a general idea and insight; such wondrous complexity and artistic freedom allow us to skip all anatomical similarities and present a rich and entertaining collection of what we all possess: the brain.
