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I started painting with pixels as a means I am greatly influenced by the effects
of expressing individuality and became water has on us and I use this to
increasingly aware of the complexities express reality in a time where it is
of relating to the individual‘s difficult to distill human originality
consciousness in its context. and individuality from its increasingly
complex context.
I was looking for ways to express it
visually, and the changing shapes of Like tides and water reflections,
water became challenging and at the our subconscious reactions face AI,
same time fascinating. predictive text and algorithms. The
art in my exhibition ‘AQUA’ is all about
Fitting pixels, which is essentially a human consciousness in our times.
fixed kind of entity, into water as a
fluid medium, is a very hard thing to For the last five years, I developed
do. The process has an ebb and flow, my abstract series ‘Essence’ which is
because it requires different levels of shown for the first time in my exhibition
creation, layering and correcting until ‘AQUA’.
the balance that I am looking for is
achieved. Some years ago I discovered the work of
Professor Dan Lloyd of the Philosophy
I was also searching for a way to more Department of Trinity College,
fully express my thoughts in my chosen Connecticut, USA. He uses a process he
art and found that the digital forms of calls ‚sonification‘ to locate and analyse
my work allowed me to make use of an consciousness. Thus he found a new
even greater scope. way of perceiving by ‚listening‘. I made
contact with this respected neurologist
I started pixelated painting with a and philosopher and he kindly assisted
triptych of a boy my husband and I had me with my research and work. His
in our foster care many years ago. Still, new way of perception of the essence
a piece of art I am so fond of and would of being human inspired me (and
never part ways. continuously does) to experiment with
digital manipulation of consciousness
In ‘AQUA’, I present three ways data, which I collect with an EEG
of handling the subject of human headband.
consciousness in our current context,
namely oil paintings, computational So here we are, five years later, only
paintings where I add the pixels now I am happy and satisfied to show
manually, and the Essence series, these works, which is a way to further
which is inspired by consciousness express my fascination with water and
data obtained from an EEG headband. consciousness.
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