The capacity and limitations of the human brain fascinate me: how much of this world can we process at once? How much can we hold in our heads simultaneously? Obviously, there is a limit to what we can see and understand about the world, because so much of it is not apparent to the human eye. It’s hidden or beyond our range of vision. I find it interesting that in music, you have sounds emitted simultaneously over time; it is orchestrated. Learning to listen to music is a way of putting multiple sounds together in a coherent (sound) or incoherent (noise) way.
Throughout my career, I’ve been intrigued with the projection of multiple patterns or images simultaneously. It creates a rhythm, like music, that seems to expand the vision, like an orchestra expands the song. This effect titillates the senses and pushes our capacity to imagine the world at a different tempo, at a different scale, a different degree of complexity, in a new perspective. Think about how letters are fitted together to create words, words to create sentences, sentences to create paragraphs and paragraphs to create essays and stories.
This entry invites you to think about the possibilities of expanding the brain to encounter more experiences simultaneously. To go beyond what we consider sensible. Or to imagine experiences combined visually to occur simultaneously, not sequentially over time. Or just to be in the moment and acknowledge the beauty and complexity of the brain to make sense of all that is happening (or not happening) at once. And to make sense of it all.