Experiencing the Idea of Mind Print

For millennia, we’ve wondered about the mysterious nature of the human mind: its inner works and outward manifestations; its influence and impact on every aspect of our world. This painting points to the “heart of the brain” in which our thoughts & feelings, intuitions & insights, ideas & theories about what the mind may be, are forming and revealing this unsolved mystery. An image of the conceptual Klein bottle appears: this topological object shows ‘a single-sided bottle with no boundary. Its inside is its outside. It contains itself,’ as the inventor Felix Kelin described it in 1882. Like the Mobius Loop, this bottle remains a universal symbol of infinity. Here I'm suggesting that no matter how many ways there are to picture and describe our phenomenal minds, the subject is bigger than any definitive description. This “metaphorm” (which combines various forms of connection-making, such as metaphor, analogy, signs, stories) sums up the evolving History of Thought on matters of mind. Ultimately, “there is in us something wiser than our head,” to quote the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. I’m just not sure anyone knows what that something is. I make art to spark curiosity and inspire innovative thinking through creative, self-learning experiences that are relevant to all people, cultures, and ways of discovering the world within and around us.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:10 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:15.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.