Michelle Lewin
Through distilling the nebulous into the tangible and concrete, I try to capture fleeting moments and render them permanent and substantial.
I have frequently worked with themes of flight and gravity. The desire to fly seems innate in the human psyche, yet so is the inevitable disappointment with the realization that we are bound to the earth. As an extension to this, I am attracted to the states of contrast and contradiction that confront us in the physical, emotional and spiritual realms. I am interested in how at the point of any extreme, things tend to revert to their opposite. For example lightness becomes heavy, opacity becomes transparent, the internal becomes external, the fragile becomes strong, what is hidden or obfuscated is revealed.
I was thinking about what currently is called “neural plasticity” and how the human brain adapts and changes according to how it is, or is not, used. Cerebellum examines the shifting nature of cognitive
evolution.
http://michellelewin.com
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I have frequently worked with themes of flight and gravity. The desire to fly seems innate in the human psyche, yet so is the inevitable disappointment with the realization that we are bound to the earth. As an extension to this, I am attracted to the states of contrast and contradiction that confront us in the physical, emotional and spiritual realms. I am interested in how at the point of any extreme, things tend to revert to their opposite. For example lightness becomes heavy, opacity becomes transparent, the internal becomes external, the fragile becomes strong, what is hidden or obfuscated is revealed.
I was thinking about what currently is called “neural plasticity” and how the human brain adapts and changes according to how it is, or is not, used. Cerebellum examines the shifting nature of cognitive
evolution.
http://michellelewin.com
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