Myriad Minds

Undertaken as Artist in Resident for the University of Birmingham's SMQB, 2024-2025

A series of 3 sculptural landscapes, each forming perfect squares from above. Their distorted topographies are derived from compiled datasets of neural imagery scans. Each sculptural work is mimetic, taking its form from aggregated neural imaging published in scientific journals. The result is a topology of neural activity representing no one individual brain, but instead has sympathy with myriad minds. These superimpositions are sculpted into volumetric form through layering of scrap organza, criss-crossed with the interstitching of thread echoing the orthogonal plotting of neural data. The organza fabrics are both figuratively and literally connective - organza is traditionally woven from silk fibres, a material which holds promise for aiding in the reconnection of neural pathways. Evoking landscapes and architectonic structures, the series gives volumetric and material expression to the abstracted visuals of fMRI data and scientific publication. These vignettes are the topology of thought, the shape of ideas.

Composite Organza on Oak Frames, variable diamensions