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What is the essence of visual perception and facial expression?
Like a portraitist, I try to reveal what my subject is feeling, thinking, and what is seen in various of states of conscienceness, including sleep. My paintings and photography portray the processes and experiments that lead to understanding the activity of the brain.
What is true observation?
In my work I use technologies both traditional and digital that transform non-visual phenomena inaccessable to direct perception. The diverse range of materials and processes used is determined by the nature of the subject. For example, I am investigating polyacetaline paint, “liquid light,” for a collaboration and portrait of its inventor.
Is painting a direct cognition of nature?
There are profound similarities between the underlying exploration process of scientific research and traditional approaches to painting and photography. Both are complex filters, a struggle to achieve understanding. I have painted how a blowfly sees and visualized how humans see the life cycle of flies. My current work represents our ability to see pattern in the face of visual noise.
How do we recognize faces?
What is a face? How do our eyes construct a three-dimensional reality from a two-dimensional image? For the last ten years, I have been creating portraits of women’s lives in scientific research. I am now collaborating with a number of scientists to visualize some of the possible connections between art and facial expression and recognition.
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