per·cep·tion n.
the process of attaining awareness or understanding
of sensory information.
of sensory information.
In my new body of work, I have branched out from an earlier series of literally graphic, mixed-media pieces that explored the process of communication. Moving from the verbal to the visual, and from the literal to the abstract, this new work illustrates my fascination with perception.
The process of perception begins with an object in the real world (distal stimulus). By means of light, sound
or another physical process, the object stimulates the body’s sensory organs which then transform the input energy into neural activity. This raw pattern of neural activity is transmitted to the brain and processed which then result in a mental recreation of the object, which is the percept.
While our initial hypotheses are usually correct, we cannot always process what we see without the inherent bias of our previous knowledge, so there exists a margin for error. Perception alters what we see, into an impure form of reality, which inevitably changes the way we perceive the truth.
These pieces attempt to illustrate that ambiguity. As the old saying goes, “Things aren’t always what they seem to be.”
The process of perception begins with an object in the real world (distal stimulus). By means of light, sound
or another physical process, the object stimulates the body’s sensory organs which then transform the input energy into neural activity. This raw pattern of neural activity is transmitted to the brain and processed which then result in a mental recreation of the object, which is the percept.
While our initial hypotheses are usually correct, we cannot always process what we see without the inherent bias of our previous knowledge, so there exists a margin for error. Perception alters what we see, into an impure form of reality, which inevitably changes the way we perceive the truth.
These pieces attempt to illustrate that ambiguity. As the old saying goes, “Things aren’t always what they seem to be.”