pensée perdu
digital drawing
17"x23"(framed)
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statement
A meditation—a
lesson in patience and perseverance, literally a visualization of the
stream of consciousness with one thought linking to the next, and the
next. We see this stream traced as a walk (in orange). Ironically there
is a simple path from source to target, a creative leap, an aha moment,
a short cut. But inside the network it is impossible to see. We are lost
in the world without a map. Trying to fulfill a desire, or simply find
our way home, we search not quite randomly for a destination, never
really knowing how close it always is.
This work is computational, exploring and visualizing topographies of
networks that model the structure of our brains and the structure of our
culture. Parsing a network from source to target, is all about finding
our way—from problem to solution, from person to person, from here to
home. We find our way through a small world, a network of incestuous
links and a little randomness. It's pathfinding through myriad maps. And
as behavior follows structure, it's not surprising that the intricacies
of our lives mirror the filagreed arbors of our neural forests.
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