The Process of Thinking
Where Identity Begins
Cognition Becomes Environment
immersive neural field
1 used pencil represents 50,000 written words or marks
Mistakes are made, erased, made again
room as nervous system. architecture of the mind
Ideas to consider for visual relevance
1. Painting the floor white so that there is a feeling of the piece floating, a blank institutional space.
2. graphite lines on the walls like a neural map, where the pencil line is forming synapsis.
3. A subset of pencils representing SVA students
4. A web of gray matter threads across the ceiling.
5. floating field = potentiality
6. Lines representing the complexity of a mind that thrives
The first drawing of a neuron as the nerve cell by German neuroanatomist Otto Deiters who was 26 when creating this. Deiter died in 1863, at the age of 29. And his work was published after his death, in 1865
Neurodivergence, graphite on paper, 18×12″, 2025
Neural Map, aluminum wire, yarn, thread, paper 36x24x10″, 2025
Neural States Shotgun Halloween, oil on canvas, 24×18″, 2026
Emergent Mind, oil on canvas, 36×24″, 2026
Do Not Write On Desk, spray paint on ready-made desk, dimensions variable, 2025
Do Not Write On Desk, spray paint on ready-made desk, dimensions variable, 2025
Synaptic Reach, aluminum wire, dimensions variable, 2025
Side view while burning
Top view after burning
Emotional Intelligence, aluminum wire, watercolor and graphite on paper, acrylic marker, on a block of ice, 12xx18″, 2026
Full piece
Detail
Notes on Neuroplasticity, aluminum wire, yarn, thread, tracing paper, acrylic marker, oil stick, on wood panel, 36x36x18″, 2026