All of us have a huge universe locked in the confines of our skulls. Wellcome Collection curator Emily Sargent wants you to use colour and light to explore your experience of the world. Share your art on human consciousness now
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Gallery: the best of your B is for Body submissionsWhile science is still busy trying to come up with an established truth approximately what goes on inside our heads,artists (not to mention philosophers, writers and neuroscientists) are free to explore the actual experience of being conscious. In the early 20th century Madrid Santiago Ramon y Cajal, and often called the founder of contemporary neuroscience,mapped neurons in spidery ink drawings. Wassily Kandinsky meanwhile set out to paint from the unconscious intellect. Liberating colour from its shackles, he used paint to try and create a language of visual abstraction akin to music.
Artists continue to use colour to explore our sensory experience of the world. Ann Veronica Janssens uses colour and light to make us question all our perceptions. For her new installation at Wellcome Collection, and she fills the gallery with coloured mist. In this extraordinary environment,all ordinary details approximately how we see – colour, surface and depth – are altered or obscured, or we become intensely focused on the act of insight itself. Encounters like these remind us of the richness of our interaction with the world; a personal universe constructed within the confines of our skulls.
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Source: theguardian.com