BRAIN TERRAINS

DIGITAL ART

Brain Terrains is an ongoing series of artworks that explores our perception of self. The works juxtapose our interior landscapes as observed through medical imaging of the body, and our exterior landscapes as witnessed through satellite imaging of the Earth from NASA’s Earth Observatory. These works invite us to contemplate the resulting in-between world that we have come to know as ourselves.

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Why

Brain Terrains is an ongoing series of works that explores the experience of locus in our personal geographies. These works explore notions of self within the context of our micro and macro environments; in the context of our understanding of interior and exterior; in our conceptual models of world, and our displaced experience of body.

The works juxtapose our interior landscapes as observed through medical imaging of the body, and our exterior landscapes as witnessed through satellite imaging of the Earth from NASA’s Earth Observatory. In combining these realms, the Brain Terrains series exposes the perceptual nature of self, which can be seen to exist somewhere in an in-between place among these realms. We temporally inhabit both and neither.

Result

These works are in private collections, and are on display at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University. Works from the Brain Terrains series were jury selected through the 2013 BIC Art Competition.
Brain Terrains - composite, CT-SCAN + NASA-EO images.
Shanghai at Night-1, CT-SCAN + NASA-EO image (Shanghai, Eastern China)
Empty Quarter, CT-SCAN + NASA-EO image (Empty Quarter, Arabian Peninsula)
A Chichon State of Mind, CT-SCAN + NASA-EO image (El Chichon, Mexico’s Chiapas state)
Columbia Glacier, CT-SCAN + NASA-EO image (The Columbia Glacier, Prince William Sound, Alaska)
Iturralde, CT-SCAN + NASA-EO image (The Iturralde Structure, Bolivian Amazon)
Cloud formations, CT-SCAN + NASA-EO image (Cloud formations over the Bering Sea)
Mississippi Mind, CT-SCAN + NASA-EO image (Mississippi River watershed, Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
Turbid, CT-SCAN + NASA-EO image (Turbid waters, New Zealand)
Missouri Mix, CT-SCAN + NASA-EO image (Missouri River, Eastern Nebraska)
Indian Clouds, CT-SCAN + NASA-EO image (Cloud formations over the Indian Ocean)
Cyberia, CT-SCAN + NASA-EO image (Fall Snow in Siberia, Russia)
Three Sisters, CT-SCAN + NASA-EO image (Three Sisters and Broken Top volcanoes, Bend, Oregon)
Cranial Cosmology, MRI + NASA-EO images. (digital collage). Backlit Panel
Thoracic Journey, X-RAY + NASA-EO images. (Rub’ al Khali, Saudi Arabia, digital collage)
Thoracic Journey. Detail.
Cortical Meander, X-RAY + NASA-EO images. (digital collage). Backlit Panel
Pink Iliac, X-RAY + NASA-EO images. (Yukon Delta, digital collage)
Pink Iliac. Detail.

INTER-REGNUM

art installation

Inter-Regnum is a wall mounted installation that explores our relationships to our maps and mental models of the world. Featured in the GLOBE 2016 Conference and Innovation Expo, Vancouver.

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Why

This work explores ideas of movement and flux, integration and dis-integration, boundaries and division, and refers us back to our own sense of place in a global context. The work was created by ‘repatriating’ a lost third dimension to the flat representations of the globe found in an atlas, to create newly re-dimensioned map-objects. These were used to configure a revised and more integrated world map in which anywhere is everywhere.