In this series, I chart common human experience as avenues to self-knowledge--often with humor, sometimes straying into experience that is not so common. I focus on thinking, feeling, observing, judging, imagining, remembering  and knowing.
 
Despite the psychological theories, philosophical debates and neurologic investigations into exactly what the mind is, the mind is still an enigma. The fact that we can't see it allows me the freedom to  play with possibility. 

Historically, gold has been associated with the spiritual and has been used in artworks to evoke a transcendental state conducive to reflection and meditation while  in ancient alchemy,  copper represented the transformation of the soul. It was sacred to the Greeks and Romans. In contrast, I use gold and copper inks on black backgrounds to map the ordinary, everyday mind, only alluding  to what I call the Large Mind--universal consciousness. 



Gold + copper pens on black paper 12 x 9"