Crocodiles And Dragons Drawing

This drawing came about after witnessing my father experiencing hallucinations whilst being seriously ill with flu. I sat by his bed whilst he reported what he could see in the Chinese rug beside his bed. For a while I was quite envious of his ability to see clearly what were the manifestations of his imagination. He was convinced of what he saw, where I only saw abstract patterns. The rug, and my father's interpretations, put me in mind of the visions I remember reading about in de Quincy`s 'Confessions Of An English Opium Eater' - a thin veil between reality and imagination. In my scientific training and in the uber-rationalist age in which we live, hallucinations can be reduced to mechanistic causes, but the variability of human experience and of perception means that we should be cautious of cause and effect and rational explanation. I ended up thinking that reality and perception are far more complex and mysterious than scientific philosophy would pretend it to be.

Drawing:pen and ink on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:16.5 W x 11.8 H x 0 D in

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