One of my brain cells

  This is a pandemic era piece. As we went through unprecedented challenges it made everyone think differently. When I look at this piece now it looks like something I would do. But at the time it was a different type of project I normally do. The simplest explanation is that this represents how I think or how we think.

In theory we all have a standard issue brain. It's our experiences that shape the way we think. But also we have our genetic differences. We all have the same wires, switches, and connections. Just sometimes the wires are crossed and some of the switches aren't turned on.

So that makes me wonder what thoughts of ours are natural ( thoughts any human would have) which is represented by the wood. Which of our thoughts are a product of environment represented by the plastic mother boards. The two together represents the worlds we were born into. At first it was a natural world and increasingly a world shaped by our making. How does our environment affect our thinking? Which is more dominant, nature vs. nurture?

The video is from one of our Cedars Open Studios show.

Measures 43" wide, 48" tall, 4 1/2" thick