Arts House Listening Program

(sensory stim brain): When you touch the textured representation of my MRI, my brain representation touches you through the nerves in your fingers. A papier mache top-down MRI scan of a brain, approximately 2M high by 1M wide. A bright textured artwork, with elements of glitter and other shiny surprises that pick up the light. The under layer is white. On it are raised contours that reflect the shapes captured when the brain was scanned. It is as though we have a birds eye view of the top of the brain. These contours are abundant as they twist around the canvas, a near symmetry on both sides. The brain looks tactile, with many touchable items placed on top of the multicolour palette. Some colours include cream, teal, pastel blue, deep vibrant oranges, with the occasional flickers of brown, yellow, red and gold. On top of the orange paint, there are circular cut outs of gold sparkly material. On top of the red paint there is velvet looking material that has hypnotic squares within squares within squa