The idea for the visual approach to this work stems from the abstract nature of synaesthesia. In it I am not trying to create an image of synaesthesia in this piece, but attempting to express it in more abstract terms. The piece is a map of the mind of sorts - the senses each have an area in the white matter and are populated with colours allocated for each sense. I have assigned red to sight, blue to hearing, green to touch, yellow to smell and orange to taste. The main colour for the sense dominates each pin stack but the other sense colours have also mingled in and crossed over. I have also included 2 areas that are not senses themselves - memory and emotion - but which nonetheless are tied in with our perceptions of the sensory world - in the way a smell can immediaely trigger memory and also the way in which synaesthetes have another ‘hook’ to hang memory from. Both memory and emotion are expressed with a dominance of silver, reflective of that which surrounds them. The final communication layer on this piece is the threading together of the pinstacks across the sensory zones to show the sensory and functional cross wiring of the synaesthetes brain.
See the blog posting on August 24 2011 for more on SynaeSence.
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