Tag: brains
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Does art lay in wait in an artist’s materials? Is there a drawing inside every pencil, a painting in every tube? Do the artist’s hands contain the art or does it travel from the head, electric and formless, commanding the hand to make tangible from mental? In my conscious mind, there is never any fully formed art. There can be concepts, modes, structures, tools, and patterns that I choose from towards the idea of making art. But there is no plan or precognition of a final state or even its process in my head. I make choices in the moment…
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I first heard about Aphantasia a bunch of years ago in a random news article and was fascinated so I immediately did the casual test for it. The test, if you don’t know about it, is to establish whether you can bring a mental picture of something to mind and what degree of clarity it might have if any. Here’s the gist of the casual test I did… Think about a red apple. Can you ‘see’ an image of an apple in your mind? You might close your eyes if it helps you to visualize. If you can hold an…