Series: Analogy of the Sēnsus
Series: Analogy of the Sēnsus
Description:
In the current body of works, each color and brushstoke invites to a melding of the senses.
These artworks explore the subject matter of the painting through a pictorial investigation of the phenomenon of synesthesia.
Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon which inspires or evokes enriched visual and cognitive reactions. Psychological and scientific testing and experiments have indicated that once we acquire language, synesthesia-like mappings of the human brain hint at our ability to consistently relate complex relationships with shape and sound. Other studies report synesthesia during lucid dreaming (or the awareness that one is dreaming while asleep) as well as its link to déjà vu, clairvoyance, and premonition experiences.
Sometimes artists can simulate the experience of synesthesia, but not entirely the neurological condition. Historically it has been used by many artists, such as Edvard Munch, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, and Giuseppe Arcimboldo, as a way of evoking, through visual stimuli, synesthesia-like reactions in the viewer.