PERCEPTION

This series of images depict to the viewer a variance on what we as humans consider the familiar ways of seeing the world. We essentially see through our senses, so this series offers a new understanding of the means by which we sense the world. It is common belief that the brain is served only by five predominant senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. However, these compose only a fraction of how we as human beings not only perceive our surroundings but also how we interact with and within reality. In this series, I focus not on the five traditional senses, but rather on those that are more obscure, yet no less essential, to our existence and perception of the world around us. This series showcases the little-known senses of equilibrioception, proprioception, magnetoreception, nocioception, thermoception, our perception of time, and finally of parallel worlds.

Through the use of fantastical imagery and photomontage, each work in the series focuses on visually portraying one of these senses, altering how we traditionally think of them. The images achieve this by allowing the viewer to enter into a realm in which one of these obscure senses manifests itself as the primary means of perceiving reality. In one image for instance, proprioception (our sense of body placement and the relationship between parts of the body) exists in a seeable manner as visible strings connecting every part of the body to another, an image that is shocking yet somehow resounding to the viewer. In this way, each image brings to light a visual understanding of a completely non-visual entity.

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