Our Inner Reality

I became interested in electrical neurological pathways that I understand generate the perceptions that go to make up our outer realities and inner realities. What interested me in particular was the absurdly reductive interpretations of processes that would seem to be so fantastically complex. D.W.Winnicott’s expression, of these two different pathways, (the inner and the outer), by contrast, would seem to infer a level of subtlety that is often ignored, “The third part of the life of a human being, a part that we cannot ignore, is an intermediate area of experiencing, to which inner reality and external life both contribute.” I feel that Terry Bisson’s sci-fi writing titled ‘Meat’ reflects the fact that we take for granted the conscious and the physiological phenomenon and forces us to acknowledge it. The piece holds the discussion between two extraterrestrials who cannot comprehend the absurdity of electrically charged meat. Upon looking at us as organisms we seem to them to be a hamfisted fabrication that are unintelligible. My contribution to this dialogue, as an artist, is to assume an absurd Frankenstein-like role. I create a faux clinical superstructure into which I present absurdist pseudo scientific interventions with wire and meat. They mimic the neuroscientist Dr Van Veen, of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, attempting to map physical neurological circuits showed these inner and outer perceptions physiologically.