Artistic  Statement

My interest is in finding a new artistic language to represent the experience of consciousness – and in so doing,
to use art as a tool to elicit a spiritual experience without resorting to the supernatural.

Consciousness is not a “stream” but is more like a flood.  It is difficult to capture its essence with language alone: words alone are linear and slow, and the terms and metaphors of folk psychology are coarse and misleading.  That’s why reporting your own “stream of consciousness” is difficult: first-person reports are notoriously intrusive, unreliable, and unverifiable. 

I use music, theatrical performance, photography, poetry, and film to illustrate the multi-layered complexity of recursive processing systems in the brain.  Throughout my work, I introduce new concepts and techniques to show how the experience of consciousness emerges from the clamor of competing voices within the parliamentary chamber of the mind.  The purpose is for the creation and viewing of the work to engender a feeling of awe at how the complexity of subjective experience emerges and evolves, without adding an extra element of “soul” or “consciousness” to the universe.

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