"Greenery" - original artwork
Greenery
16x20”
oil on canvas
If you've just arrived to my corner of the internet, I paint plants but I do so without using much green.This piece was my *actively* trying to use more green.
But the whole concept behind my work is to abstract those colours so that the piece challenges your brain to find other patterns, shapes, and images within it!
Limiting beliefs! Annihilated!
This piece was done in 2019, but my 2021 PPV* research has confirmed my original question, that if I were to change the colours of "familiar" objects (plants) would that force the brain to change its baseline perception of plants? Would you be able to see other things within a "familiar" object?
A new concept in neurobiology known as degeneracy shows that neurons don’t have single "set functions", and that they can, in fact, adapt and alter those functions.So to grossly oversimplify: “seeing nerurons” can become “smelling neurons” in recently-blinded humans!Increased degeneracy has been found in more complex minds**, and complex minds have been shown to recover quicker from trauma. Resiliency! Plants without greeeeeeen!
*Personal Protective Visuals (PPV) a grant project supported by The Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council For The Arts
**A note from Lesson no. 2, “Your Brain Is a Network,” in Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.Complexity, by way of a “complex mind” refers to a system with higher or lower complexity depending on how much information it can manage by reconfiguring itself.
Greenery
16x20”
oil on canvas
If you've just arrived to my corner of the internet, I paint plants but I do so without using much green.This piece was my *actively* trying to use more green.
But the whole concept behind my work is to abstract those colours so that the piece challenges your brain to find other patterns, shapes, and images within it!
Limiting beliefs! Annihilated!
This piece was done in 2019, but my 2021 PPV* research has confirmed my original question, that if I were to change the colours of "familiar" objects (plants) would that force the brain to change its baseline perception of plants? Would you be able to see other things within a "familiar" object?
A new concept in neurobiology known as degeneracy shows that neurons don’t have single "set functions", and that they can, in fact, adapt and alter those functions.So to grossly oversimplify: “seeing nerurons” can become “smelling neurons” in recently-blinded humans!Increased degeneracy has been found in more complex minds**, and complex minds have been shown to recover quicker from trauma. Resiliency! Plants without greeeeeeen!
*Personal Protective Visuals (PPV) a grant project supported by The Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council For The Arts
**A note from Lesson no. 2, “Your Brain Is a Network,” in Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.Complexity, by way of a “complex mind” refers to a system with higher or lower complexity depending on how much information it can manage by reconfiguring itself.
Greenery
16x20”
oil on canvas
If you've just arrived to my corner of the internet, I paint plants but I do so without using much green.This piece was my *actively* trying to use more green.
But the whole concept behind my work is to abstract those colours so that the piece challenges your brain to find other patterns, shapes, and images within it!
Limiting beliefs! Annihilated!
This piece was done in 2019, but my 2021 PPV* research has confirmed my original question, that if I were to change the colours of "familiar" objects (plants) would that force the brain to change its baseline perception of plants? Would you be able to see other things within a "familiar" object?
A new concept in neurobiology known as degeneracy shows that neurons don’t have single "set functions", and that they can, in fact, adapt and alter those functions.So to grossly oversimplify: “seeing nerurons” can become “smelling neurons” in recently-blinded humans!Increased degeneracy has been found in more complex minds**, and complex minds have been shown to recover quicker from trauma. Resiliency! Plants without greeeeeeen!
*Personal Protective Visuals (PPV) a grant project supported by The Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council For The Arts
**A note from Lesson no. 2, “Your Brain Is a Network,” in Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.Complexity, by way of a “complex mind” refers to a system with higher or lower complexity depending on how much information it can manage by reconfiguring itself.