SynaeScope – REV project 3

My intention with these photographic explorations is to suggest the notion of heightened sensory feedback – the world as perceived by the synaesthete is richer and more intense. All the original images feature reflection, illumination, connectivity – this is their underlying theme. My intention is to convey something of the idea that the familiar scenes we perceive that play out in an ordinary way, have actually the potential for another way of seeing and perceiving – an altered perspective. In synaesthesia there is a crossing over from one sensation to another and also a literal crossing over that occurs from one brain area to another. MRI is one way to show the sensory and higher, or associative,  brain areas that cross over and underlie in synaesthesia. The element of the MRI comes into play subtly in the how the images are created and finished.  This is primarily done through the colours and abstraction of the shapes which also serve to communicate something of the heightened more intense sensory awareness of the synaesthete. The idea is to allude to the visualising that these brain mapping technologies provide. The intent is to express how what is before us is not always reflected back in the same and expected way to every individual – again looking at altered perceptions in the synaesthestes reality.