In this piece the artist looks at the breakdown of consciousness on different levels: from the possible outward appearance of a breakdown, to the altering mental state, to what might actually be happening on a cellular level. The artist experimented with photography, textures and paint styles and looked at the work of William Utermohlen to get to the final piece. An altered self-protrait is surrounded by a neural network where not all the nerve cells are correctly connected (perhaps a little modest!).

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Summer placement work

Preliminary sketches, maquettes and a final sculpture depicting the brain as an electrical and computational network.

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Large version of brain sculpture
Large version of noodle maquette
Large version of live wire man
Large version of keyboard brain

A depiction of the explosion of thoughts, feeling and emotions that occur in all of us (represented by Blue Fred).

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Consciousness is like Geisha, she dances, she sings, she entertains you. The rest of her is like shadows, a mystery. It is easier for us to identify what she is not; yet very difficult to define. what she is. Sometimes, she might just peep out her face from behind the fan. Whatever you see it might just be another question waiting to be answered. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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Imagination running wild.

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The variety of different shapes and forms within a cell can be effected by proteins containing BAR domains.

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The brain influencing the person. The judges loved the idea that 'this artist was getting inside the brain of a real teenager'.

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