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