Seeing Ourselves Exhibition, Center for Photography and The Moving Image, New York City, 2012.
Joyce Cutler-Shaw, What Comes to Mind, 1-3 Artists books with movies from The Anatomy Lesson. Seeing Ourselves Exhibition, Center for Photography and The Moving Image, New York City, 2012.
Seeing Ourselves Exhibition
The human body is the matrix of the human condition. With its long history of depiction, the human body remains a frontier, still being re-defined, with the brain, its formation and functions, at the forefront of neurological and neurobiological research. The invitation to develop new work for the exhibition, Seeing Ourselves, which included a comprehensive brain scan, has generated an extensive project of which the tunnel books with moving pictures, titled What Comes to Mind: Tunnel Books One, Two and Three, are but a beginning. The invitation was a provocation. It was:
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The human body is the matrix of the human condition. With its long history of depiction, the human body remains a frontier, still being re-defined, with the brain, its formation and functions, at the forefront of neurological and neurobiological research. The invitation to develop new work for the exhibition, Seeing Ourselves, which included a comprehensive brain scan, has generated an extensive project of which the tunnel books with moving pictures, titled What Comes to Mind: Tunnel Books One, Two and Three, are but a beginning. The invitation was a provocation. It was:
- to realize with awe and wonder that the world and the cosmos are both of and beyond our cognition
- that the, more or less, three pound, skull encased, embodied structure, the brain, in its marvelous complexity, is what defines and propels us
- that the emerging and compelling subject/theme, inspired by this initial project for the exhibit, Seeing Ourselves, is the visual translation of the evolution of human consciousness, that is, what it means to be human. It is a continuing project that I have titled, What Comes To Mind.